Psychopathology: Phobias Flashcards by Marcia Nyarko-Twum | Brainscape

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Behavioural Characteristics of Phobias

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Avoidance
Panic (Person freezes
when face to face with phobia - ‘fight or flight’)

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Emotional Characteristics of Phobias

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Fear (triggered by the presence of the phobia)
Anxiety (happens even when the phobia is absent)
Both are experienced excessively and unnecessarily for people with phobias

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Cognitive Characteristics of Phobias

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Selective Attention (the person becomes fixated on their phobia when it it present)
Irrational Belief (they may make irrational assumptions about that phobia)

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