Behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics for phobias
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- Behavioural, emotional and cognitive characteristics for phobias
- Behavioural
- Avoidance
- Unless the sufferer is making a conscious effort to face their fear, they tend to got to a ,lot of effort to avoid coming into contact with the phobic stimulus
- Panic
- A phobic person may panic in response of the phobic stimulus
- Endurance
- The alternative to avoidance is endurance, in which the sufferer remains in the presence of the phobic stimulus but maintains high levels of stress
- Avoidance
- Emotional
- Anxiety
- Phobias are defined as a anxiety disorder. By definition they involve an emotional response of anxiety and fear.
- Emotional responses are unreasonable.
- The emotional responses we experience in relation to the phobic stimuli go beyond what are reasonable
- Anxiety
- cognitive
- Selective attention to the phobic stimulus
- if a sufferer sees the phobic stimulus it hard for them to look away from it. We keep looking at something dangerous so we can react quickly to it.
- irrational beliefs
- A pbic may hold irrational beliefs in relation to the phobic stimulus. E.G social phobias may include " i always have to sound intelligent
- Cognitive distortions
- The phobics perception of the phobic stimulus may be distorted.
- Selective attention to the phobic stimulus
- Behavioural
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