psychopathology - phobia Flashcards
behaviouarl
panic
avoidance
endurance
cognitive
selectrive attention
irrational
distortions
emotional
anxiety
unreasonable
behavioural explanation
2 process model
classical - learnt
operant - miantained
strengths to two-process model
applied to treat phobias (systematic desensitisation)
weakness to two-process model
motivated by safety (positve) - Buck (2010)
ignores biology - Bounton (2007)
social learning
behavioural treatments
systematic desensitisation
(anxiety heirarchy, relaxation, graduated exposure)
strenghts of SD
Gilroy et al. (2003) - 42 spider phobias, control group with no exposure
suitable for most people
weakness of SD
not app for all - some can’t imagine
strenght of flooding
Choy et al (2007) - better
cost effective
weakness of flooding
unethical
less effeective for social phobias with faulty thinking