The Behavioral Explanation for Phobias

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strengths: Barlow and Durand date

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1995

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strengths: Barlow and Durand shows that in cases of people with a severe fear of driving

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50% had been involved in a car accident

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strengths: through classical conditioning from the road accident

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the unconditioned stimulus had turned into a conditioned stimulus and so, a phobia

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strengths: behavioral therapies are very

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effective in treating phobias by getting the person to change their responce to the stimulus

Question 5

weaknesses: Davey date

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1992

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weaknesses: Davey found that only

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7% of with a fear of spiders recalled having a traumatic event with a spider

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weaknesses: this suggests that there could be other

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factors that cause phobias