Posted: September 1st, 2015

Anxiety.

Anxiety…
Consider how these factors might work together to contribute to an anxiety disorder:
• Genetics
• Sensitive fear pathways
• Attention to threat cues
• Classical conditioning
• Societal/cultural expectations
• Family modeling of anxiety
• Stressful life events
• Sense of lack of control

you can use your creativity and apply these to specific examples. You also can consider the case of Agnes posted on the course website; the case of Bob presented in lecture (who had a fear of flying; see “Causes of Abnormal Behavior” topic); or the case of Anne (mentioned in lecture from the book Dying of Embarrassment: a 7th grader with writer’s block and test-taking anxiety; Anne knows the material when her mother quizzes her at home, but when she gets to school and goes to take the test, she freezes and her mind goes blank. One specific outcome of her anxiety is that she ends up with ‘C’ grades rather than ‘A’ grades.) Again, how might some of the above factors work together to cause and perpetuate Agnes’s, Bob’s, and/or Anne’s anxiety?

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