Arachnophobia Research Paper

As Rachel and Samantha was walking down the street to go the store. Rachel suddenly stop and started screaming at the top lungs the word spider, spider. I hate spiders explained Rachel to Samantha. Samantha told Rachel it is not even on you why are you tripping. Rachel said that the sight of me even looking at a spider give me the creeps. Phobia is a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous. This research paper will discuss the cause, symptoms, and treatments of phobias.
The first phobia that I will be discussing will be Arachnophobia. Arachnophobia is a fear or a dislike of spiders and is the most common specific phobia.
There are few theories that are used. Some of the most common theories were brought out by evolutionary psychologists. Evolutionary psychologist may suggest that arachnophobia is based on a survival technique from our ancestors. Since most of the spider species are very venomous, although most of them do not even pose a threat to humans, the fear of spider will mostly make humans survive and even reproduce more. Arachnophobia can be treated most of the time with therapy; one in particular is the cognitive behavioral technique. The cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on stopping the negative automatic thoughts that are associated with the feared object or situation, replacing them with more rational thoughts instead. Some of the techniques may include cognitive reframing and systematic desensitization. Some of the newer research found has shown that virtual reality therapy, in which sufferer may be exposed to the virtual representation of spiders, this may even work better that the older technique of gradually exposing the client to live spiders later in their life. There are some cases, were antidepressant or even anti-anxiety medications could be used to treat arachnophobia. The second phobia that I will be talking about is Cynophobia. Cynophobia is the fear of dogs and is one of the most extremely common specific phobias. Even though snake and spider phobias are more prevalent, more people are more likely to encounter dogs in their day to day life. Most people think that a phobia of dogs can be devastating or even limit the sufferers contact with dogs owning friends and family and also curtailing their normal activities. Like most of the animal phobias, a fear of dogs is one of the most commonly caused by many different negative experiences with dogs, especially during someone’s childhood. Many kids and dogs are really curious and many of them have been jumped on by extremely, overexcited puppies or even been growled at by