Phobias Table

Question 1

Behavioural, emotional, cognitive aspects OCD

Answer 1

Behavioural: repetitive compulsions, hinders everyday functioning, social impairment

Emotional: anxiety

Cognitive: obsessive thinking, repetitive thoughts

Question 2

Behavioural, emotional, cognitive aspects depression

Answer 2

Behavioural : low energy, sleep +/-, appetite +/-, withdraw/ isolate

Emotional: low mood, loss of pleasure in previously attained activities, sense of worthlessness

Cognitive: negative thought processes/ self-schemas, attentional bias to the negative, reduced concentration, poor memory, thoughts of death

Question 3

Behavioural, emotional, cognitive aspects phobias

Answer 3

Behavioural: avoidance of phobias

Emotional: anxiety and fear

Cognitive: fixation (attentional bias) to feared object, recognition of exaggerated anxiety

Question 4

Identify and briefly explain one behavioural, emotional or cognitive aspect of Eloise’s fear [3 marks]

Buttons phobia. ‘she even refuses to go into clothes shops where there are likely to be clothes with buttons.’

Answer 4

Eloise’s fear displays the behavioural characteristic of avoidance to buttons, ‘she even refuses to go into clothes shops where there are likely to be clothes with buttons.’ This suggests that since the phobia of buttons causes Eloise heightened levels of anxiety she resorts to avoidance. We can infer that since Eloise is negatively reinforcing her phobia of buttons, she is likely to maintain the phobia through operant conditioning.