Fear of Being in a Place or Situation from Which

question 150

Multiple Choice

Fear of being in a place or situation from which escape is difficult or impossible if something should go wrong is called __________

• A) agoraphobia.
• B) a social phobia.
• C) a specific phobia.
• D) trypanophobia.

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Definitions:

Personality

The combination of characteristics or qualities forming an individual's distinctive character and behavioral patterns.

Unconscious

The part of the mind that is not within thought's immediate reach and that contains desires, wishes, and motivations unknown to the individual.

Preconscious

represents thoughts and feelings that are not immediately in consciousness but can be accessed through attention or stimuli.

Id

In Freudian psychoanalytic theory, the part of the psyche that is the source of instinctual impulses and demands for immediate satisfaction of primitive needs.