Anxiety

Question 1

BIPI

Answer 1

Blood Injury Phobia Inventory
18 situations involving blood and injections
Self-report
Rating scale 0-3

Question 2

GAD-7

Answer 2

Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 questionnaire
7 items measures severity of anxiety
Rating scale 0-3

Question 3

Watson & Rayner (1920)

Answer 3

Classical conditioning
Case study
11 month old Little Albert
White rat was NS was paired with US loud noise
White rat became CS

Question 4

Freud (1909)

Answer 4

Oedipus complex
5 year old Little Hans
Penis
Castration
White horses with black nose bands 
Jealousy
Plumber

Question 5

Ost (1992)

Answer 5

Biomedical/genetic
81 blood phobics + 59 injection phobics + other phobics
Self-report
Measures % of maximum performance, experimenter’s rating on patient’s fainting behavior, self rating of anxiety (0-10)
50% blood phobics have one or more parents with the same phobia; 27% injection phobics

Question 6

Di Nardo (1988)

Answer 6

14 dog-fearful + 21 non-fearful age 18-21 female psy students
Unpleasant past experiences with dogs: 56% in fearful 66% in non
Free will
Holistic

Question 7

Wolpe (1958)

Answer 7

Behavioral psychology
Reciprocal inhibition: the impossibility of feeling two strong and opposing emotions simultaneously
1. teach relaxation technique
2 create anxiety hierarchy
3. keep calm using chosen technique; cannot move on til no feelings of anxiety reported

Question 8

Ost (1989)

Answer 8

Applied tension
increases blood pressure prevents fainting
30 from the same hospital with phobia of blood, wounds and injuries
Control: 19F 11M aged 18-60
Applied tension/applied relaxation/both
Follow up 6 months after
73% across all groups show improvement

Question 9

Ost & Westling (1995)

Answer 9

Cognitive behavioral therapy
Compared with applied relaxation
38 recruited through newspaper ads and psychiatrist referrals
12 weekly sessions
Self-report and self-observation by keeping a diary
Assessed before, after and a year after the treatment