Chapter 5 - Anxiety Disorders

Question 1

Anxiety

Answer 1

• a state of apprehension and worry in response to a vague sense of being threatened in some way

Question 2

Fear

Answer 2

• a state of immediate alarm in response to a serious, known threat to ones well being

Question 3

Anxiety Disorders

Answer 3

• Most common mental disorder in the US
• in any given year 18% of population will meet criteria
• 29% will have it

Question 4

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Answer 4

• experience excessive anxiety under most circumstances and worry about practically anything
• “free-floating anxiety”

Question 5

Sociocultural Perspective (GAD)

Answer 5

-most likely to develop in people who are faced with ongoing societal conditions that are dangerous (poverty)

Question 6

Psychodynamic Perspective (GAD)

Answer 6

• defense mechanisms are particularly inadequate
• realistic anxiety: when they experienced fear
• neurotic anxiety: when they face psychological fear
• moral anxiety: superego claims you did something wrong and are punished for expressing id impulses