⚫ Psychopathology: Phobias

Question 1

What are the DSM-5 categories of phobias

Answer 1

• Specific phobia
• Social anxiety (social phobia)
• Agoraphobia

Question 2

What is specific phobia

Question 3

What is social anxiety

Question 4

What is agoraphobia

Question 5

List the behavioural characteristics of phobias

Answer 5

• Panic
• Avoidance
• Endurance

Question 6

Outline panic as a behavioural characteristic of phobias

Question 7

Outline avoidance as a behavioural characteristic of phobias

Question 8

Outline endurance as a behavioural characteristic of phobias

Question 9

What are the emotional characteristics of phobias

Answer 9

• Fear
• Anxiety
• Unreasonable emotional response

Question 10

Describe the difference between anxiety and fear

Question 11

Outline fear as an emotional characteristic of phobias

Question 12

Outline anxiety as an emotional characteristic of phobias

Question 13

Outline unreasonable emotional response as an emotional characteristic of phobias

Question 14

What are the cognitive characteristics of phobias

Answer 14

• Selective attention to phobic stimuli
• Irrational beliefs
• Cognitive distortions

Question 15

Outline selective attention to phobic stimuli as a cognitive characteristic of phobias

Question 16

Outline irrational beliefs as a cognitive characteristic of phobias

Question 17

Outline cognitive distortions as a cognitive characteristic of phobias

Answer 17

• The perceptions of a person with a phobia may be inaccurate and unrealistic

e.g a person with a phobia of snakes may see them as alien