Conditioning and Phobias
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- Created on: 15-04-15 16:30
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- Conditioning and Phobias
- 1. Behaviourists believe that phobias are an example of classical conditioning
- 2. What is required to produce a phobia is a UCS that produces a strong emotional reaction, pain, for example, and a situation where the UCS can become associated with a neutral stimulus
- 3. For example, suppose a person got bitten by a dog when they were a child:
- Pain (UCS) _ Anxiety (UCR)
- Pain (UCS) + Dog (NS) _ Anxiety (UCR)
- Dog (CS) _ Anxiety (CR)
- 4. If that anxiety response generalises from that particular dog to all dogs then result would be that the person became anxious every tie they saw a dog. In other worlds they would have developed a phobia
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