Characteristics of phobias

Question 1

What is the definition of a phobia?

Answer 1

An anxiety disorder which interferes with daily living

Question 2

What kind of fear is a phobia?

Answer 2

An irrational fear that produces a conscious avoidance of the feared object or situation

Question 3

What is a specific phobia?

Answer 3

Phobias surrounding a specific animal, event, bodily and situations

Question 4

What is a social phobia?

Answer 4

Phobias of social situations, public speaking, parties or meeting new people

Question 5

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 5

Phobias of public crowded places or leaving safety of home

Question 6

What is the DSM?

Answer 6

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental disorder

Question 7

What are the 3 characteristics of phobia?

Answer 7

Behavioural, emotional and cognitive

Question 8

What are 3 examples of behavioural characteristics?

Answer 8

Avoidance
Endurance
Panic

Question 9

What are 2 examples of emotional characteristics?

Answer 9

Anxiety
Having unreasonable emotional responses

Question 10

What are 3 examples of cognitive characteristics?

Answer 10

Cognitive distortions
Irrational beliefs
Selective attention to the phobic stimulus