treating of phobias flooding

Question 1

define flooding

Answer 1

immediately exposing people with a phobia to phobic stimulus without a gradual build up through the anxiety hierarchy

Question 2

explain flooding through classical conditioning

Answer 2

flooding works by stopping the phobic responses as without the option of avoidance behaviour clients learn that the phobic stimulus is harmless. In classical conditioning this is called extinction

Question 3

what do clients have to give before starting flooding?

Answer 3

informed consent

Question 4

explained how the process to making the conditioned stimulus not produce the conditioned response with application to fear of dogs

Answer 4

the conditioned stimulus (dog) is encountered without the unconditioned stimulus (being bitten)

so conditioned stimulus doesn’t produce conditioned response (fear)