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Psychological Disorder (What is abnormality? (Current definitions of…

- - - - Panic attack:
        sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying
    - - Social anxiety disorder (social phobia):
        fear of interacting with others or being in social situations that might lead to a negative evaluation
      - Specific phobias:
        
        Claustrophobia: fear of being in a small, enclosed space
        
        Acrophobia: fear of heights
      - Agoraphobia: fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible
    - - Behavioral:
        Anxious behavioral reactions are learned
      - Cognitive:
        Anxiety is result of illogical, irrational thought processes
        
        Magnification:
        tendency to interpret situations as far more dangerous, harmful, or important than they actually are
        
        All-or-none thinking:
        tendency to believe that one's performance must be perfect or the result will be a total failure
        
        Overgeneralization:
        distortion of thinking in which a person draws sweeping conclusions based on only one incident or event and applies those conclusions to events that are unrelated to the original;
        the tendency to interpret a single negative event as a neverending pattern of defeat and failure
        
        Minimization:
        distortions of thinking in which a person blows out a negative event out of proportion to its importance (magnification) which ignoring relevant positive events (minimization)
      - Biological:
        Anxiety is due to dysfunction in several neurotransmitter systems (e.g., serotonin, GABA) and/or difference in brain activation;
        panic disorder is also hereditary
      - Cultural:
        Anxiety disorders found around the world but particular forms vary across cultures
- - - - Typically female, obsessed with appearance, diet excessively, and have distorted body images; biological, psychological, and culture factors are likely