Chapter 5 Flashcards
Preliminary Reviewer
It is a future-oriented apprehension, tension, or sense of dread while fear is an immediate emptional response to danger or perceived threat in the environment.
Anxiety
Short but intense periods during which one experiences many symptoms of anxiety such as; heart palpitations, trembling, shortness of breath, dizziness, intense dreath, and the fear of dying
Panic attacks
It is only made when the panic attacks are more problematic.
Panic disorder
Dysregulation of norepinephrine systems in an area of the brain.
Locus cereleus
The unfounded belief that bodily symptoms have harmful consequences.
Anxiety sensitivity
A heightened awareness of bodily cues (such as slight sensations of arousal or anxiety)
Interoceptive awareness
Occured at the beginning of previous panic attacks and have become conditioned stimuli signaling new attacks.
Interoceptive conditioning
Some people then begin to associate certain situations with symptoms of panic and may begin to feel them again if they return to the situation. By avoiding these places, they reduce their symptoms.
Conditioned avoidance response
When we’re anxious, we tend to commit a comma cognitive error.
Probability overestimation
Become so anxious in social situations and are so afraid of being rejected, judged, or humiliated in public that they are preoccupied with worries about such events to the point that their lives may become focused social encounters.
Social anxiety disorder
A psychological disorder that involves uncontrollable urges to keep items that have no utility or instrumental value.
Hoarding
Another obsessive-compulsive type disorder that is characterized by the repetitive pulling out of one’s hair loss and functional impairment.
Trichotillomania
Characterized by recurrent picking at one’s own skin from any part of the body which often results in skin lesions, scars, and/or infections and causes disruption in daily function.
Excoriation
This is an obsessive-compulsive disorder characterized by excessive concern about physical appearance which results in significant distress and the impairments of interpersonal situations.
Body dysmorphic disorder
Subtype of BDD that almost exclusively affects men who new their bodies as very small and weak, even though the person generally possesses on average or above average muscle mass.
Muscle dysmorphia
