Systematic Desensitisation: Psychological Intervention To Phobia

Question 1

What does systematic desensitisation involve?

Answer 1

Presenting successive approximations of the conditioned stimulus (CS) until it no longer produced the conditioned response (CR)

Question 2

How does systematic desensitisation apply classical conditioning principles

Answer 2

Involves unlearning the association between anxiety and a specific object and relearns positive feelings with that same object