Phycology Phyco Path Olog Flashcards
Maintaining a phobia through operrant conditioning
Avoidance leads to no anxiety so renfoces the phobia
What is flooding
Flooding is where a person is exposed to there phobia all at once
First and second stage of systematic desesitistion
1) learning relaxation techniques
2) creating a hyerachi of needs
What is stage 3 and 4 of systematic desesitistion
3) experiences each stage of hyerachi with relaxation techniques
4) they are cured and the phobia is extinct
What is a explanation of common phobias e.g spiders
Evolution may have led most humans to naturaly fear spider for survival
All explanations for abnormality
1) failure to function adequately
2) statistical infrequency
3) deviation from socal norms
4) deviations from ideal mental health
Define deviation from socal norms
When some one goes against the unwritten rules of society
Define statistical infrequency
This is where a mental characteristic is rair in a population
Weekness of statistical infrequency
Some rair characteristics are positives
Things such as depresio are mental illness but are common
Weekness of deviation from socal norms
People who move from a different culture may not know socal norms yet
What experiment was used to understand phobias
Little Albert
What does that ABC model for depression stand for
Activating event
Believe
Consequence
Describe becks negative tyrade
Three schemas with a persistent automatic negative bias
How can the cognitive approach be used to explain depression
Negative or irrational thoughts
Why might some patients prefer dug therapy over traditional face to face therapy
That some believe it is easy and has a lack of side effects as it address the probal case of depression
