Jones : Curing a boy's phobia
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- Created on: 04-03-15 19:12
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- Jones : Curing a boy's phobia
- Aim
- Investigate whether a phobia in a little boy could be deconditioned
- Whether this would generalise other objects
- Procedure
- Peter - 2 years 10 months
- Playing with beads, shown white rat
- Got scared, left beads, protested when rat touched beads but not when another child did
- Reactions to other objects observe, fear of rat generalised other objects
- Rabbit slowly introduced
- Results
- Peter's behavior improved and worsened
- Classical conditioning helped him
- Other children acted as role models
- Conclusions
- Classical conditioning and social learning helped decondition Peter
- Deconditioning reduced generalised fears
- Strengths
- Observations happened over a long time
- Different methods used
- Weaknesses
- Gaps between sessions were variable
- Difficult to tell which method was most effective
- Aim
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