Psychopathology - phobias

Question 1

phobias are charcateised by

Answer 1

excessive fear and anxiety

triggerd by object
place
situation

Question 2

in phobias describe the extent of fear

Answer 2

out of proportion
to any real danger
presented by phobic stimulus

Question 3

BCOP - how do we respond to things or situations we fear

Answer 3

by behaving in particular ways

• feeling high levels of anxiety
• trying to escape

Question 4

BCOP - the fear repsones in phobias are the same as

even if

Answer 4

what we experience for any other fear

even if the fear level is irrational

Question 5

BCOP - what do i mean when i say the fear lvl is irrational

Answer 5

out of proportion to the phobic stimulus

Question 6

BCOP - what are the 3 behavioural charcateristic of phobiuas

Answer 6

Panic

Avoidance

Endurance

Question 7

BCOP - what may a person do in repsonse to the prescence of a phobic stimulus

Answer 7

panic

Question 8

BCOP - give examples of some of the behaviours panicking may involve

Answer 8

range of behaviours e.g

crying
screaming
running away

Question 9

BCOP - in term of panic how many children react

Answer 9

slighlty diffrently e.g

freezing

clingning

having tantrum

Question 10

BCOP - What is avoidance

Answer 10

instead of making consocious effort to face their fear

go to a lot of effort to prevent coming into contact with phobic stimulus

Question 11

BCOP - what can avoidance do

Answer 11

make it hard to go about daily life

Question 12

BCOP - give example of how avoidance can make it hard to go about daily life

Answer 12

someone with fear of public toilets

limit time spent otuside relevant to how long they can last without toilet

this in turn can interfere with work education social life

Question 13

BCOP - what is the alt behavioural repsonse to avoidance

Answer 13

endurance

Question 14

BCOP - what is enudrance

Answer 14

when person chooses to remian in prescenece of phobic stimulus

Question 15

BCOP - give exampe of endurance

Answer 15

someone with arachnophobia choose to remain in room with spider on wall and keep wary eye on it rather than leaving

Question 16

ECOP - emotional charcterstics are

Answer 16

related to a person feeling or mood

Question 17

ECOP - what are the emotional charcteristics of phobias

Answer 17

anxiety

fear

emotional repsonse is unreasonable

Question 18

ECOP - what are phobias classed as

Answer 18

anxiety disorders

Question 19

ECOP - phobias are anxiety disorders what does this mean

Answer 19

involve an emotional repsonse of anxiety - an unpleasant state of high arousal

Question 20

ECOP - what does anxiety do i.e prevent

Answer 20

prevents a person relaxing

Question 21

ECOP - what does anxiety make difficult to experience

Answer 21

very difficult to experience any positive emotion

Question 22

ECOP - anxiety can be what type of timeframe

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long term

Question 23

ECOP - fear and anxiety have what type of meanings

Answer 23

distinct meaning s

Question 24

ECOP - fear meaning

Answer 24

immediate and xtremly unpleasnat resposne we experience when encounter or think about a phobic stimulus

Question 25

ECOP - compare fear to anxiety

Answer 25

usually more intense experienced for shorter period than anxiety q

Question 26

ECOP - unreasonable - anxiety and fear are much greater than and in terms of proportions

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than is normal and disproportionate to any threat posed by phobic stimulus

Question 27

ECOP - give example of emotional response being unreasonabe

Answer 27

arachnophobia person has strong emotional response to tiny spider e.g meltdown when in reality most people respond in a less anxious way even to a poisonous spider

Question 28

CCOP - what is the cognitive elemt of phobuas concerned with

Answer 28

ways which people process info

Question 29

CCOP -how do people with phobias process info about phobic stimulus

Answer 29

differentley from other objects and situations

Question 30

CCOP - what are the three cognitive characteristics of phobias

Answer 30

selective attention to phobic stimulus irrational beliefs cognitive distortions

Question 31

CCOP - SELECTIVE ATTENTION TO STIMULUS - if person can see phobic stimulus

Answer 31

hard to look away from it

Question 32

CCOP - SATS why is keeping our attention on something really dangerous a good thing

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gives us best chance of reacting quickly to a threat

Question 33

CCOP - SATS - when is keeping attention on dangerous thing not useful

Answer 33

when fear irrational

Question 34

CCOP - DEFINE irrational beleifs 2 points holding explanation

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person with phobia may hold unfounded thoughts in relation to phobic stimulus they cant be explained easily and have no basis in relaity

Question 35

CCOP - give scenario where someone with social phobia has irrational beliefs

Answer 35

if i blush people will think im weka

Question 36

CCOP - socila phobia : if i blush people will think im weak - what does this kind of belief do

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increase pressure on person to perform well in social situations

Question 37

CCOP - what are cognitive distortions

Answer 37

perception of person with phobia may be innacurate and unrealistic

Question 38

give an example of cognitive distortion

Answer 38

someone with mycophobia sees mushrooms as disgusting