Phobias

phobias are instances of what

• unreasonable and insistent fear

• fear due only to childhood

• reasonable fear

Chaetophobia is the fear of

• smoke

• happiness

• Hair

• bats

specific phobias _______ risk of developing other disorders

individual actively avoids the situation, or if unable or decides not to the situation or object evokes intense fear or anxiety

• criterion d

• criterion b

• criterion f

• criterion c

what is the UK's most common phobia

• public speaking (glossophobia)

• height (acrophobia)

• spiders (arachnophobia)

• enclosed spaces (Claustrophobia)

what is the estimate amount of people who have phobias in UK (in may 2023)

• 10 million

• 8 million

• 1.5 million

• 15 million

what two phobias are often interlinked

what are common behavioural characteristics

• freezing

• avoidance

• anxiety

• irrational thinking

is the person aware of their unreasonable behaviour

• yes

• no

what are emotional characteristics of phobias

• anxiety

• fainting

• avoidance

• panic