| Name two emtional characterisitcs of phobias ? | Anxiety and fear |
| What is anxiety with phobias? | A emotional response of anxiety, high state of arousal. Prevents relaxation, can be long term - hard to experience positive emotion |
| What is fear with phobias? | Immediate and extremely unpleasent response. More intense, but shorter than anxiety. Usually unresonable, greater than 'normal fear' and disproportionante to any threat. |
| Name 3 behavioural characteristics of phobias? | Panic, avoidance, endurance |
| What is panic? | Invovles crying, screaming, running away. Children may frezze and have a tantrum |
| What is avoidance? | Conscious effort to not face their fears, preventing coming into contact, makes it hard in their daily life |
| What is endurance? | They choose to remain in the presense of the phobc stimulus |
| Name 3 cognitive characterisitcs of phobias? | Selective attention to the phobic stimulus, irrational beliefs, cognitive distortions |
| What is selective attention to the phobic stimulus? | Keeping attention to the stimulus, gives them best chance to act quickly. But its not useful if the fear is irrational |
| What is irrational beliefs? | May hold unfounded thoughts, can't explain it and don't have a basis in reality. |
| What is cognitive distortions? | Perceptions of people with phobias may be inaccurate and unrealistic. |
