PSYC 2280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Social Anxiety Disorder
18 Dec 2013
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Specific phobia an irrational fear of a specific object of situation that markedly interferes with an individual"s ability to function. Four major subtypes of specific phobia: animal type, natural environment type (ex. heights, storms, and water), blood-injection-injury type, and situational type (ex. planes, elevators, or enclosed places) and a 5th type other Blood-injection-injury phobia unreasonable fear and avoidance of exposure to blood, injury, or the possibility of an injection (victims experience fainting and increased in blood pressure and heart rate) Situational phobias fear of public transportation or enclosed places. Natural environment phobias fear of situations of events occurring in nature (ex. heights, storms, and water: seem to cluster together: you fear water, then you"re likely to fear storms too. Animal phobia fears of animals and insects (might avoid reading magazines for fear of coming across a picture of animals) Other phobias: illness phobia fear of contracting a disease and go to excessive lengths to avoid exposure to that disease.
