How Do Cognitions Help Maintain Phobias

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Essay

How do cognitions help maintain phobias?

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Definitions:

Overstimulation

A condition where the sensory input exceeds an individual's capacity to handle it effectively.

Stimulus Over Selectivity

The tendency to focus on a limited aspect of a complex stimulus, ignoring other possible components.

Non-Hispanic White

Refers to people from the United States who are not Hispanic or Latino and identify as having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

African American

Pertaining to or descriptive of Americans of African descent with ancestry primarily linked to sub-Saharan Africa.