Atypical Behaviour

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Atypical behaviour. Defined

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A behaviour which is considered abnormal and is applied the the majority

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Key concepts

What’s typical behaviour

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A behaviour which is normal and it usually applies to the majority

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What’s phobia ?

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An atypical fear response given the objects or situation

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Agoraphobia

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An extreme fear of public places and not being in the safety of the home

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What is school phobia

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An extreme fear of attending or being at school

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Social phobia

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An extreme fear of being exposed ore bases during social contact

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Acrophobia

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Am extreme fear of heights

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Arachnophobia

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An extreme fear of spiders

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Symptoms of phobias

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Heart pounding
Sweating
Sickness
Dizziness
Hard to concentrate
Loss of control

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What is the core theory based on, who’s doggy theory?.

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Pavlov s dogs and classical conditioning

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What is an unconditional response?

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UCR

A response which is natural and does not need to be learnt

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Unconditioned stimilus

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Something that triggers a natural response

UCS

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Neutral stimulus

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NS

Something that would not normally trigger a reaction

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Conditioned stimilus

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CS

Something that triggers a learnt response that we have conditioned

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Conditioned response

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CR

A response that has been learnt through conditioning through association

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What happens to conditioned responses over time?

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They get extinguished and the association dies out

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How are phobias started?

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Through classical conditioning and the result of a negative experience

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What is operant condoning

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Learning my consequences if the consequence of an action is rewarding we do it again. If the consequence is negative we don’t do it again

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Criticisms of the core theory

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It ignores the thinking behind behaviour

Phobias can be learnt indirectly

Can’t explain some phobias

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Core study Watson and raynern

Aim

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To see if phobias can be learnt through classical conditioning

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Core study procedure

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Little Albert at 9months was tested for reactions to stimulus rat rabbit monkey fire and masks they were neutral
Hammer on bar was feared

11 mths conditioned to fear a rat by giving to to him then scaring Him with a bar
It was repeated

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Watson and rayner results

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The rat was enough to scare Albert and he tried to avoid it

He also now feared rabbit Santa mask cotton and watsons hair

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Criticisms of Watson and rayner

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Artificial ecological validity

Small sample

Highly unethical

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What is flooding?

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An application and you flood yourself with your fear

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What is systematic desetisation

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A more ethical form of behaviour therapy

Clients form new associations