Flooding

Question 1

What is flooding?

Answer 1

• a method for overcoming phobias based on Pavlov’s classical conditioning

Question 2

Is this techniques fast or slow?

Answer 2

• faster technique

Question 3

Is this efficient?

Answer 3

• not efficient

Question 4

How would a psychologist approach it?

Answer 4

• a psychologist would put a person in a situation where they would face their phobia at its worst, the subjects attempt to replace their fear with relaxation.

Question 5

Is there gradual exposure

Answer 5

• This technique has no gradual exposure

Question 6

What is the rationale behind flooding?

Answer 6

• The patient’s anxiety if maintained at such as high level that eventually some process of exhaustion or stimulus satiation takes place.
• If a patient is prevented from making their normal escape/avoidance response extinction will occur.