Phobias: explanations
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- Created on: 09-05-16 20:21
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- Explanations of phobias
- behavioural: classical conditioning- negative associations from a stimulus in the environment
- Little Albert: before conditioning-loud noise=fear rat =no fear
- During conditioning: loud noise and rat= fear
- After conditioning:white rat=fear
- During conditioning: loud noise and rat= fear
- Little Albert: before conditioning-loud noise=fear rat =no fear
- Psychoanalytic: Freud- Little Hans
- Interested in his penis, mother told him off and he had a fear of castration.
- Saw a horse, afraid it would bite him. A conflict developed between him and his father
- dream about the crumpled giraffe. Horse represented his father.
- Going through the oepidus complex, obsessed with his mum and has to identify with the father i.e plumber dream.
- Biomedical/ genetic
- Biologically prepared. survival threat in evolutionary term. Ohman-house, face, spider and snake. (GSR)
- OST: 64% of blood phobics reported having a 1st degree relative with a blood phobia.
- Cognitive: Di nardo noted that only 50% of people with dig phobias had traumatic experience. Must be they way we process the situation.
- behavioural: classical conditioning- negative associations from a stimulus in the environment
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