PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Social Anxiety Disorder
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Specific phobias: specific phobia: a strong and persistent fear that is triggered by the presence of a specific object or situation, blood-injection-injury phobia is a common specific phobia. Show dramatic drop in heart rate and blood pressure rather than the normal rise. Experience nausea, dizziness, or fainting which doesn"t occur in other specific phobias. Unique response pattern by have evolved because if you faint when being attacked you could inhibit further attack, and the drop in blood pressure minimizes blood loss. Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences: 12% prevalence rate of specific phobias, over 75% among people with a specific phobia have at least one that is excessive, more common in women than men. Watching a phobic person behaving fearfully with his or her phobic object can be distressing to the observer and result in fear being transmitted from one person to another.
