explaining phobias

Question 1

Two process model by…

Answer 1

└Hobart Mowrer (1960)

Question 2

Acquisition

Answer 2

classical conditioning

Question 3

Maintenance

Answer 3

operant conditioning

Question 4

Strengths

Answer 4

Application
└therapy
└explains why patient must be exposed
└reduces avoidance behaviour

Question 5

Limitations

Answer 5

Incomplete explanation of phobias
└Bounton (2007)
  └evolutionary factors also important 
  └adaptive to acquire fears 
└Seligman (1971)
  └biological preparedness
    └innate preposition to acquire certain fears 

Doesn’t explain phobias that don’t follow trauma
└not aware of bad experience with phobic stimulus