... how fearful they are of that creature's ugliness. The participants were selected through an opportunity sample. The results, which were 0.95, which the researcher calculated from the use of Spearman's Rho, indicated that there was a very significant correlation between the two factors at a significance of 0.05. INTRODUCTION For the Independent Study the researcher decided to do a study on Anxiety Disorders, concentrating on one of the most common anxiety disorders which is phobias. It is suggested that there are a number of different reasons why people develop simple animal phobias. One explanation based on the biological model suggest that humans are born with an inherent predisposition to 'fear' certain creatures which may once in their evolutionary past could have harmed or even killed them. Seligman (1971) first spoke of the view of 'preparedness.' The concept of preparedness states that animals and humans are born to fear certain creatures, ...

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