Anxiety Flashcards
Watson (1920)
Behavioral
Little Albert
conditioned stimuli: furry objects
unconditioned stimuli: loud sound
unconditioned response: fear (cry, turn away)
associate loud sound with furry animal
conditioned response: fear with furry animals
Mas et al. (2010); Spitzer et al. (2006)
Good concurrent validity for BIPI and GAD-7
Wolpe (1958)
Systematic desensitization
Condition the phobic stimuli with deep relaxation
Agras (1967)
Effectiveness of Systematic desensitization with agoraphobia
Kimura et al. (1972)
Effectiveness of Systematic desensitization with fear of snake
Freud (1909)
Impulse from id
11-year-old boy, Oedipus complex
The white horse-object of fear-represents his father.
Hans met Freud no more than two times.
Ost (1992)
81 blood phobic and 59 injection phobic
50% of blood phobics and 27% of injection phobics had one or more parents with the same fear, 21% of bold phobics also reported having at least one sibling who shared the disorder.
High proportion of participants for blood phobia and injection phobia had history of fainting when exposed to fearful stimuli, greater than any other phobias.
Ost et al. (1989)
Applied tension
30 blood phobics
73% of the P.P.Ts show noticeable improvement
Di Nardo et al. (1988)
14 cynophobia and 21 non
Painful encounters with dog reported 56% for phobic group while 66% for non-phobic group.
Mainly phobic group expect harm and fear with dog.
Ost & Westling (1995)
38 participants
CBT is as useful as applied relaxation.