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Understanding Anxiety Disorders: Fear, Anxiety, and Related Conditions, Quizzes of Psychology

Definitions for key terms related to anxiety disorders, including fear, anxiety, panic disorder, unexpected panic attacks, situational bound panic attacks, situational predisposed panic attacks, and agoraphobia. Anxiety disorders are characterized by excessive worrying and fear about future uncertainties, which can impact both physical and psychological health.

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TERM 1
Fear
DEFINITION 1
Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat that causes
animals to move quickly away from the location of the
perceived threat, and sometimes hide.
TERM 2
Anxiety
DEFINITION 2
Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state
characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and
behavioral components.
TERM 3
Anxiety disorder
DEFINITION 3
is a blanket term covering several different forms of a type
of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive
rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear
about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined
events, which may affect both physical and psychological
health.
TERM 4
Panic disorder
DEFINITION 4
People with this experience panic attacks. Periods of fear and
physical discomfort. Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder
characterized by recurring severe panic attacks. It may also
include significant behavioral changes lasting at least a
month and of ongoing worry about the implications or
concern about having other attacks.
TERM 5
Unexpected panic attack
DEFINITION 5
Some of the persons panic attacks must come out of the
blue, something didnt trigger the attack it just happens.
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TERM 1

Fear

DEFINITION 1 Fear is an emotion induced by a perceived threat that causes animals to move quickly away from the location of the perceived threat, and sometimes hide. TERM 2

Anxiety

DEFINITION 2 Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral components. TERM 3

Anxiety disorder

DEFINITION 3 is a blanket term covering several different forms of a type of common psychiatric disorder characterized by excessive rumination, worrying, uneasiness, apprehension and fear about future uncertainties either based on real or imagined events, which may affect both physical and psychological health. TERM 4

Panic disorder

DEFINITION 4 People with this experience panic attacks. Periods of fear and physical discomfort. Panic disorder is an anxiety disorder characterized by recurring severe panic attacks. It may also include significant behavioral changes lasting at least a month and of ongoing worry about the implications or concern about having other attacks. TERM 5

Unexpected panic attack

DEFINITION 5 Some of the persons panic attacks must come out of the blue, something didnt trigger the attack it just happens.

TERM 6

Situationally bound panic attacks

DEFINITION 6 Experience of a panic attack in anticipation of confronting a particular situation or immediately following exposure to a specific stimulus or cue in the environment TERM 7

Situationally predisposed panic attack

DEFINITION 7 Person has tendency to have a panic attack in a situation but not always TERM 8

Agoraphobia

DEFINITION 8 which is intense anxiety about being trapped, stranded, or embarrassed without help if a panic attack were to occur.Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives the environment as being difficult to escape or get help.