Without being in any objective danger, you are suddenly overcome with fear and feel like you are having a heart attack because of the chest pains, dizziness, and weakness. After several minutes the episode passes, but you experience several similar unexpected reoccurrences over the next few months. This indicates

Social Phobias run in families, supporting a modest genetic factor that may be strongest for the Generalized subtype.Some neuroimaging data suggests that the amygdala responds differently to novel faces rather than to familiar faces in people with Social PhobiaLearning models assume social phobia develops in similar ways as other phobias, involving a conditioned association between social cues and unpleasant or embarrassing events or social defeats.Psychodynamic models tend to emphasize internal conflicts that produce anxiety (as in the other phobias) as the probable cause of social phobia.

What will be an ideal response?

Maria takes good notes in class. Whenever someone who has missed class due to illness asks her if he can copy her notes, she grips them tightly and says "No! They're mine, and I don't wish to share them."

A psychoanalytic theorist would probably contend that Maria has a(n) _______ fixation. a. oral b. anal c. phallic d. genital