Phobia Treatments:Flooding

Question 1

What is flooding?

Answer 1

-put person with phobic stimulus for a prolonged time where no escape is possible.

Question 2

What does reciprocal inhibition mean?

Answer 2

Can’t feel anxious and calm at the same time so eventually one cancels putt the other.

Question 3

How is the nervous system affected by anxiety?

Answer 3

Anxiety causes the sympathetic nervous system to activate so you eventually have to calm down as can’t be anxious forever.

Question 4

What happens after flooding is down?

Answer 4

Extinction- fear caused by the phobic stimulus not longer exists.

Question 5

What are some weaknesses of flooding?

Answer 5

-spontaneous recovery may occur so not a permanent solution.
-violating protection from harm (psychologically distressing).
-systematic desensitisation may be a better treatment.

Question 6

What are some strengths of flooding?

Answer 6

-research shows effective for treating ptsd.
-Better treatment than systematic desensitisation.
-research shows girl was driven round in car(phobic stimulus) and was hysterical and eventually calmed down.