Learning theory as an explanation of phobias

Question 1

What are the three learning theories behind phobia accusation

Answer 1

Classical conditioning
SLT
Operate conditioning

Question 2

How does classical conditions work for phobias

Answer 2

Learn the phobia by association

Question 3

Jodie attended birthday parties when she was younger there was a clown who burst a balloon with scared Jodi now she is scared of clowns use your knowledge of cc to explain Jodie’s fear of clowns
What was the NS, UCS,UCR,NR CS,AND CR

Answer 3

UCS- BALLON POPPING
UCR- FEAR
NS-CLOWN
NR
UCS+NS- BALLON POPPING AND CLOWN
NR-FEAR
CS-CLOWN
CR-FEAR

Question 4

Jodie attended birthday parties when she was younger there was a clown who burst a balloon with scared Jodi now she is scared of clowns use your knowledge of cc to explain Jodie’s fear of clowns

Answer 4

Jodi heard bang of a ballon the ucs which lead to the ucr of fear
the clown was the Ns stimulus as Jodie felt no fear from it and produced no fear response to seeing a clown without a balloon
By going to many partie Jodie pared the no of the clown with the ucs of the ballon to get the nr of fear
As a result the cs became the clown and the cr fear so Jodie was afraid of clowns