Phobias Flashcards
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Snakes; attributed to evolutionary causes, personal experience, or cultural influences
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Ophidiophobia
1
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Spiders; affects more women than men
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Arachnophobia
2
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Heights; may cause anxiety attack and avoidance of high places
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Acrophobia
3
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Situations in which escape is difficult; may include crowded areas and open spaces and may cause panic attacks
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Agoraphobia
4
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Dogs; often caused by childhood events
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Cynophobia
5
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Thunder and lightning; many names
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Astraphobia
6
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Injections; often goes untreated
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Trypanophobia
7
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Social situations; can cause panic attacks
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Social Phobias
8
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Flying; treated with exposure therapy
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Pteromerhanophobia
9
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Germs or dirt; may be related to OCD
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Mysophobia
