What does Yerks-Dodson’s law tell us?
Too little arousal and a person will not be engaged or alert.
Too much arousal and a person will be stressed and inefficient.
Medium arousal has optimal performance
What are the two different types of non-clinical anxiety?
state: anxiety in response to a specific stress inducing stimulus
Trait: a characteric pattern of heightened anxiety responses.
what is generalized anxiety disorder?
excessive/ persistent worry, which is difficult to control, for over 6 months.
What are phobic disorders?
excessive/ persistent fear of an object or situation which lasts longer than 6 months.
person experiencing this is aware it is excessive.
stimulus evokes immediate anxiety.
What is Social Anxiety disorder?
A type of phobic disorder where a person has a marked fear of social situations, where scrutiny is plausible, leading to fear of humiliation and negative appraisal.
Often onset by shyness in childhood.
List four cognitive factors of anxiety?
- intolerance of uncertainty
- avoidance (tuning out, distraction)
- negative problem orientation (maladaptive cognition)
- Positive beliefs about worry (helps me plan)
What is an attentional bias?
When we selectively allocate attention towards a specific stimulus.
In people with disorders threat detection deviates from rest of a normal population.
What may these people have that maintains disorders?
maladaptive self schemas.
People with Anxiety disorders may have … which leads to …?
-hypervigilance
-maladaptive self schemas.
What are the two types of shyness?
- state
-trait
What’s the difference between publicly shy, privately shy and socially anxious shy?
publicly shy: obvious to others that someone is uncomfortable
privately shy: someone may seem extroverted though internally they have physical responses to certain stimulus
socially: fucking self explanatory.
