Phobias

A (blank) is an anxiety disorder involving excessive and persistent fear of a situation or object

• Objectophobia

• Phobia

• Mental illness

• Agoraphobia

The natural response(s) to a threat include

• Fight

• Flight

• Freeze

• All the above

What phobia involves an irrational and extreme fear of being in places where escape is difficult?

• Social phobia

• Specific Phobia

• Agoraphobia

• Claustrophobia

Which of the following is NOT one the four major categories of phobias?

• Failure

• Animals

• Medical treatments or issues

• Natural environment

The names of the phobia are often formed by taking a (blank) prefix

• Latin

• American

• Greek

• Australian

Fear of flying

• Ablutophobia

• Aerophobia

• Algophobia

• Anemophobia

Fear of outer space

• Astrophobia

• Ataxophobia

• Arithmophobia

• Astraphobia

Coulrophobia is the fear of

• Clouds

• Chickens

• Clowns

• Time

Entomophobia is the fear of

• Teenagers

• Cats

• Insects

• Marriage

The fear of (blank) is so common that research estimates that as many as 73% of Americans have some level of this fear

• Dogs

• Water

• Public Speaking

• Sun