LaunchPad for Psychology in Modules (Six-Month Access)
LaunchPad for Psychology in Modules (Six-Month Access)
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ISBN: 9781319068042
Author: David G. Myers, C. Nathan DeWall
Publisher: Worth Publishers
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Chapter 49, Problem 1MM
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Concept introduction: Anxiety disorders are psychological disorders characterized by significant feeling of anxiety and fear. They are caused by a combination of things including abnormality in brain, environmental stress, and genes. The common symptoms found in all disorders are panic, fear, sleep problem, shortness of breath, dry mouth, nausea, and tensed muscles.

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Correct answer: Anxiety that takes the form of an irrational and maladaptive fear of a specific object, activity, or situation is called as phobia.

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A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes a person to feel exaggerate, irrigational fear about a situation, thing, living creature, place, or an activity. There are three types of phobia seen in people, namely social phobia, agoraphobia, and specific phobias. The phobias begins mostly at ten years of old. The symptoms of a person suffering from phobia include a sensation of uncontrollable anxiety, not being able to do anything when exposed to the trigger. The symptoms include abnormal breathing, trembling, chest pain, sweating, nausea, headache, and dizziness.

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