Psychology Studies 3

Question 1

Experimented with an 11 month old boy ‘little Albert’ producing a fear of a white rabbit by associating it with a loud scary noise

Answer 1

Watson and Rayner (1920)

Question 2

Showed that monkeys could develop a snake phobia by simply observing another monkey being fearful in the presence of a snake

Answer 2

Mineka et al (1984)

Question 3

Little Peter fear of white rabbit which then developed into a fear of fur and other stimuli - 16 graduated steps and pleasant stimulus

Answer 3

Jones 1924

Question 4

It is the exposure to feared stimulus not pairing of pleasant stimulus that is the most effective method of SD design of study makes it impossible to detect which had the greatest effect

Answer 4

Marks 1987

Question 5

MV was a 17 year old boy with dog phobia an anxiety hierarchy was made from dogs via photographs to loose dogs in the same room

Answer 5

Newman and Adams 2004

Question 6

Carried out an experiment which demonstrated flooding - took a girl who was scared of cars and drove her around for hours initially the girl was hysterical but eventually calmed down when she realised her situation was safe

Answer 6

Wolpe 1983

Question 7

effectiveness of SD was good or better on all measures of outcome at the end of treatment than the most popular drug SD treatment group 87% patients free of panic DT. 50% free of panic Placebo 36%free of panic

Answer 7

Klosoko

Question 8

Concluded that flooding was significantly more effective at tackling phobias than SD but patients found it traumatic so did not return/ walked out

Answer 8

Chow 2006

Question 9

Evaluated an adversion therapy programme over 4 chemical dependency units and found significant success in treating cocaine, marihuana and alcohol dependencies eg they found that 81% of alcohol abusers abstained at 6 months following treatment with 71.3% still abstinent at 20 months

Answer 9

Fraweley and Smith