Review the three anxiety response systems and give examples from each
What will be an ideal response?
Physical System. When a person perceives or anticipates danger, the brain sends messages to the sympathetic nervous system, which produces the fight/flight response. The activation of this system produces many important chemical and physical effects that mobilize the body for action. Cognitive System.Since the main purpose of the fight/flight system is to signal possible danger, its activation produces an immediate search for a potential threat. For children with anxiety disorders, it is difficult to focus on everyday tasks because their attention is consumed by a constant search for threat or danger. When these children can't find proof of danger, they may turn their search inward: "If nothing is out there to make me feel anxious, then something must be wrong with me.". Behavioral System.The overwhelming urges that accompany the fight/flight response are aggression and a desire to escape the threatening situation, but social constraints may prevent fulfilling either impulse. For example, just before a final exam you may feel like attacking your professor or not showing up at all, but fortunately for your professor and your need to pass the course, you are likely to inhibit these urges! However, they may show up as foot tapping, fidgeting, or irritability (consider the number of teeth marks in pencils) or as escape or avoidance by getting a doctor's note, requesting a deferral, or even faking illness.
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Which of the following statements is true of the dual-process model of coping with bereavement?
Restoration usually shatters assumptions about the world and one's own place in it. Restoration-oriented stressors is one of the key dimensions of the dual-process model. Loss-oriented stressors exclude any positive or negative reappraisal of the loss. Coping with loss and engaging in restoration can occur only separately.
Very few people have actually come in contact with a shark, but many would show fear at the sight of a large fin swimming through the ocean waves because they have seen movies or news reports in which people have been attacked by sharks. This illustrates
a. vicarious classical conditioning. b. shaping. c. operant conditioning. d. desensitization.