| Term | Definition |
|---|
| anxiety | a brooding fear of what might happen |
| phobia | an extreme and irrational fear of something |
| agoraphobia | a fear of open spaces, fear of leaving the security of your home |
| social phobia | fear of being observed by other people |
| specific phobia | fear of animals, inanimate objects or illness |
| symptoms | ...include cognitive, somatic, emotional, behaviour |
| genetic | biological explation where first degree relatives share a phobia gene |
| vulnerability | biological explation where people are more scared as ANS is more sensitive |
| prepardness | biological explation where phobias come from evolution |
| superego | the psychodynamic says that phobias are down to conflict between the id, ego and ... |
| repression | the ego puts this into the unconscious using defence mechanisms such as ... |
| classical conitioning | in behaviourist phobias are down to assosiation |
| operant conitioning | in behaviourist phobias are maintained trough reward and reinforcement |
| bodily functions | in cognitive you pay too much attention to your ... |
| panic attacks | in cognitive faulty mediators increase anxiety which can lead to... |
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