PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Nomophobia, Natural Disaster, Palpitations
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Anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent mental health problems. Anxiety consists of both physiological arousal and cogniive worry o. Common theme - sense if self is deicient or inefecive. Phobias are intense unreasonable fears that disrupt the life of an otherwise normal person o. Relaively common (people avoid their phobia, don"t need treatment) Social phobia is the fear of social situaions in which the person may be scruinized by other people. Speciic phobia is fears of animals, situaions, the natural environment, blood and injecions. Psychoanalyic view of phobia : defense against repressed conlicts. Behavioural view of phobia o o o o. Acquired through classical condiioning ( paring of an innocuous (not harmful) object or situaion with an innately painful event) Operant condiioning ( whereby a person in awarded for avoidance) Modelling ( imitaing the fear and avoidance of others) Through cogniion ( making a catastrophe of a social mishap that could be construed in a less negaive fashion)
