Psychopathology: behavioural explanations for phobias

Question 1

What did the two process model state?

Answer 1

-phobias are learnt through classical conditioning and maintained through operant conditioning

Question 2

Who created the two process model?

Answer 2

Mowrer

Question 3

What was the key study that supports this model

Answer 3

-little albert

Question 4

Who did the little Albert study?

Answer 4

Watson and rayner

Question 5

What was the procedure of the study?

Answer 5

-association of white rats with a loud bang

Question 6

What did the study find?

Answer 6

-white rats became a conditioned stimulus leading to fear

Question 7

What did the study allow to be generalised?

Answer 7

-the white rats were generalised to a similar stimuli (white furry objects)

Question 8

What was a strength to mowrer’s model?

Answer 8

-RWA:
.application to therapy through systematic desensitisation

Question 9

What were some of the negatives to mowrer’s model?

Answer 9

-phobias don’t always follow after a traumatic event
-‘biological prepardness’:
.humans are genetically programmed to associate fear with a life threatening stimuli