Other Flashcards
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What is flooding
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- is an exposure therapy and might be seen as less ethical
- the idea is to replace the fear response with a different response
- someone can only experience an alarm reaction for a certain length of time and then it would have to subside
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Strengths of flooding
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- is quick because the alarm reaction cannot be maintained
- Wolpe provided evidence for flooding as he took a girl who was scared of cars on a drive until she calmed down
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Weaknesses of flooding
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- the treatment can be frightening and not ethical
- treatment might be short lived
4
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Scientific procedures act and home regulations
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- replace the animals to non - sentient e.g rats
- reduce the amount of animals used
- refine the procedure to make it as short as possible
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Animal studies
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Harlow and Harlow (1962) child psychology
- wanted to see the effects of social deprivation on monkeys
Seligman (19740 learned helplessness
-restrained dogs were harnessed and administered electric shocks with a conditioned stimulus
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For using animals
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- animals are cheaper to use
- they can be kept in controlled conditions and observed for long periods
7
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Against using animals
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- can’t be generalised to humans
- unethical
8
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What is systematic desensitisation
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- involves a step by step approach to get the person used to the phobic object or situation
- people are taught to relax their muscles and they are then introduced gradually to the phobia
- the gradual introduction involves a hierarchy in which the individual sets up for themselves
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Strengths of systematic desensitisation
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- its a fairly ethical procedure compared to other therapies, because it involves gradual exposure
- it has clear relations with the classical conditioning principles
- the therapy works e.g. capafons
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Weaknesses of systematic desensitisation
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- there are other factors involved like operant conditioning principles as well as elements of social learning
