Phobias

Question 1

What are the emotional characteristics of phobias?

Answer 1

Excessive and unreasonable fear.
Feelings of anxiety and panic.
These emotions are cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation

Question 2

What are the behavioural characteristics of phobias?

Answer 2

Avoidance or fight/flight/freeze

Question 3

What are the cognitive characteristics of phobias?

Answer 3

The irrational nature of the person’s thinking and the resistance to rational arguments

Question 4

What is the behavioural approach to explaining phobias?

Answer 4

The two process model - classical conditioning and operant conditioning

Question 5

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 5

A phobia is acquired through association.
UCS - UCR
UCS + NS - UCR
CS - CR

Question 6

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 6

Positive and negative reinforcement.

Question 7

What is positive reinforcement?

Answer 7

If a behaviour is rewarded then the individual are more likely to repeat it.

Question 8

What is negative reinforcement?

Answer 8

Something is taken away from the individual that makes them return to their previous, calm state

Question 9

Evaluation for the behavioural approach