Phobias

Question 1

Define phobias, emotions, behaviours, and cognitive

Answer 1

Phobias - irrational fear of an object / situation.
Behavioural- how people act
Emotional - how people feel
cognitive- how people think ie) seeing, perceiving and believing

Question 2

What are the behavioural characteristics of phobias?

Answer 2

P.A.E
PANIC - cry, freeze, etc
AVOIDANCE- Avoid phobic stimulus
ENDURANCE- Remain in its presence but still with high level of anxiety ie) flying

Question 3

What are the emotional characteristics of phobias?

Answer 3

Anxiety - phobias are an anxiety disorder, the response to them is fear.
Example - Arachnophobia
Emotional responses are unreasonable ie) w/ arachnophobia.

Question 4

What are the cognitive characteristics of phobias?

Answer 4

Selective attention paid to the phobic stimulus - not useful when fear is irrational ie in pognophobics. (beard fear)

Irrational beliefs - ie) to not blush and to always sound intelligent (in social phobias)

Cognitive distortions- ie) tripophobic can see holes as scary and weird