characteristics of phobias Flashcards
introduction-phobias
• Anxiety Disorder
• Excessive/irrational fear and anxiety, triggered by an object or a situation.
• The extent of the fear is completely out of all proportion to the actual stimulus.
• Conscious avoidance of the stimulus.
types of phobias
• Specific Phobias
• Fears about specific objects or situations.
• Spiders | snakes | the dark
• Social Phobia
• Anxiety relating to social situations.
• Public speaking / taking to a group of people | using a public toilet.
• Agoraphobia
• A fear of being in situations where escape might be difficult or that help wouldn’t be available if things go wrong.
characteristics of phobias
behavioural, emotional, cognitive
behavioural characteristics of phobias
-panic
-avoidance
-freeze
emotional characteristics of phobias
excessive and unreasonable:
-fear
-anxiety
-panic
cognitive characteristics of phobias
To do with thoughts.
• Selective attention to the stimulus
• Irrationality of thoughts and resistance to reason.
• Recognition that fear is excessive.
-cognitive distortions-see stimulus as more frightening as is