After reading and studying this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Identify and give examples of the four types of symptoms that constitute anxiety.
2. Know the differences between adaptive fear and maladaptive anxiety.
3. Identify the brain areas and physiological changes that are active in the fight-or-flight response.
4. Know the key features of panic disorder and the biological and psychological theories that attempt to explain it.
5. Identify the treatment available for panic disorder as well as their advantages and disadvantages.
6. Know the key features of agoraphobia.
7. Identify the four main types of specific phobias.
8. Discuss the biological and psychological theories of phobias.
9. Discuss the effective behavioral treatments for phobias.
10. Discuss the key features of GAD and the theories that attempt to explain it.
11. Identify treatments used for GAD.
12. Describe how the anxiety disorders discussed in this chapter vary between the sexes and across cultures.