Mental health topic 3 = Alternatives to the medical model

Question 1

3 non medical approaches for explanations of mental illness

Answer 1

Behaviourist
Cognitive
Humanist

Question 2

3 behaviourist explanations for mental illness

Answer 2

Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Social learning theory

Question 3

What mental illness are we looking at based on behaviourist explanations for it?

Answer 3

Phobias

Question 4

Classical conditioning explanation for phobia

Answer 4

Phobias are learn via association between a neutral stimulus and unconditioned stimulus that causes averse feeling
This occurs at same time so conditions an adverse feeling to neutral stimulus

Question 5

Operant conditioning explanation of phobias (positive reinforcement)

Answer 5

If a phobic response is met with rewards eg comfort then encourages them to repeat behaviour of fear to a stimulus = develops into a. Phobia

Question 6

Operant conditioning explanation for phobias (negative reinforcement)

Answer 6

If fear response to stimulus is Met with someone removing this stimulus then encourages repetition of aversion to phobia = phobia