Flashcards: Phobias

A specific phobia is any kind of anxiety disorder that amounts to an unreasonable or irrational fear related to exposure to specific objects or situations.

Trypophobia is a proposed phobia (intense, irrational fear) of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps.

Erotophobia is a term coined by a number of researchers in the late 1970s and early 1980s to describe one pole on a continuum of attitudes and beliefs about sexuality.

Acrophobia (from the Greek: ἄκρον, ákron , meaning "peak, summit, edge" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up.

Social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by a significant amount of fear in one or more social situations causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives the environment to be unsafe with no easy way to get away.

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, defined by a persistent fear of an object or situation.

Aquaphobia or waterfright is a persistent and abnormal fear of water.

Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, n. specio, an appearance, form, image of a thing; an apparition, spectre) or catoptrophobia (from Greek κάτοπτρον kátoptron, "mirror") is a kind of specific phobia involving a morbid fear of mirrors.

Taijin kyofusho (対人恐怖症 taijin kyōfushō, TKS, for taijin kyofusho symptoms) is a Japanese culture-specific syndrome.

Photophobia is a symptom of abnormal intolerance to visual perception of light.

Anthropophobia or Anthrophobia (literally "fear of man", from Greek: άνθρωπος, ánthropos, "man" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear"), also called interpersonal relation phobia or social phobia, is pathological fear of people or human company.

Phonophobia, also called ligyrophobia or sonophobia, is a fear of or aversion to loud sounds—a type of specific phobia.

Androphobia is is an abnormal fear of men, a type of specific social phobia.

Eurotophobia is the fear of female genitalia.

The fear of falling (FOF), also referred to as basophobia (or basiphobia), is a natural fear and is typical of most humans and mammals, in varying degrees of extremity.

Death anxiety is the morbid, abnormal, or persistent fear of one's own mortality.

Roller coaster phobia is a colloquial and slang term describing an individual's fear of roller coasters.

Nosophobia is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.