phobias - behaviourism

• phobia


  -anxiety disorder

  -primary symptom extreme anxiety

  -irrational fears

  -produce conscious avoidance
• specific phobias 


  -specific objects/things

  -spiders

  -snakes
• agoraphobia


  fear of being out in public place with no escape
• social phobias 


  -fear of talking to group of people

  -interacting with others in social situations
• emotional characteristics 


  -unreasonable, excessive & persistent fear

  -panic

  -feelings of anxiety out of proportion to actual danger
• behavioural characteristics


  -avoidance of situation / object > disruption to normal routine

  -freezing

  -fainting

  -fight or flight response
• cognitive characteristics


  -irrational thought processes

  -resistant to rational arguments

  -person recognises fear is irrational > distinguish between phobia & delusion