Abn: ch.5

negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and by apprehension about the future

immediate alarm reaction to danger

sudden overwhelming reaction

• abrupt experience of intense fear or acute discomfort
• symptoms include heart palpitations, chest pain, shortness of breath, and dizziness

• situationally bound
• unexpected
• situationally predisposed

• panic attack in certain situations but not anywhere else
• common in specific phobias

• person doesnt have a clue when or where the next attack will occur
• common in panic disorders

• more likely to have an attack where yu have had one before
• b/n the other two attacks
• common in panic disorders

activated by signals from the brain stem of unexpected events, such as major changes in body functioning that might signal danger

theory of the development of anxiety and related disorders

1st vulnerability;