APPLICATIONS OF CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Question 1

Graduated Exposure

Answer 1

An application of classical conditioning where the learner is exposed to a series of situations or stimuli that invoke feelings of anxiety in order of least distressing to most distressing, in order to reduce or eliminate the anxiety at each stage.

Question 2

Flooding

Answer 2

An application of classical conditioning where the learner confronts the most distressing aspect of a phobia (by either imaging it or being physically exposed to it) until the distress is eliminated.

Question 3

Aversion Therapy

Answer 3

An application of classical conditioning used to eliminate undesirable behaviours by pairing a stimulus that leads to a bad habit with an undesirable stimulus that leads to the learner avoiding the bad habit in the future.