phobias

Question 1

what is a phobia

Answer 1

fear that limits you and irrational

Question 2

how can phobias be aquired through CC

Answer 2

how phobia can be learned
- wont last long so association would have to be paired often
- not responsible for maintance
- anxiety attack when shopping can lead to further anxiety when shopping, renewal maintains phobia

Question 3

how can phobia be aquired through operant conditioning

Answer 3

• behaviour is rewared and repeated, behaviour is punished and isnt repeated
• maintained through negative reinforcement
• if someone gets anxious of shopping they may not go to avoid being anxious
• if shopping brings back anxiety symptoms, psitive punishment

Question 4

how can phobia be aquired through social learning theory

Answer 4

-if someone models phobia
- mother has social phobia, if mothers phobia not maintained by OC and CC, child might model own phobia and mothers

Question 5

evaluate learning theories in explaining phobias

Answer 5

+ OC and SLT have lot of supporting evidence of their principles, credible
+ watson and rayner
+ CC has been developed as a theory based on studies with lots of controls, pavlov, findings replicated
- animal studies
- phobia take into account all surrounding, theories are reductionist