Phobias

Question 1

What is agoraphobia?

Answer 1

• fear of crowds, assemblies of people and open spaces
• the most common and most likely to occur in females in young adulthood

Question 1

What are the 3 main classifications of phobias?

Answer 1

Agoraphobia, Social Phobias, Specific Phobias

Question 2

What are social phobias?

Answer 2

• Social anxiety disorders
• fear of doing something humiliating in front of others
• onset often during adolescence

Question 3

What are Specific Phobias?

Answer 3

• fear of specific objects or situations such as illness disease or death.
• resistant, irrational, intense fear of particular object or event

Question 4

What are the four types of Specific Phobias?

Answer 4

• Animal phobia: Spider, Dog, Snakes
• Natural environment phobias: darkness, storms, heights, water
• Situation Phobias: enclosed spaces, elevators, flying, dentists, driving, tunnels, bridges
• Blood Injections, Injury phobias: medical procedures, sight of blood, needles

Question 5

What are stressors?

Answer 5

psychological and physical response to internal or external sources of tension (stressors) that challenge a persons ability to cope.