Psychology Unit 2 Learning

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    • Classical Conditioning
      • Pavlov (dog salivation)
      • Watson and Rayner (Little Albert)
      • Practical applications
        • We are more likely to buy a product if a favourable association is built between the advert and the product
    • Operant conditioning
      • Thorndike (cat puzzle box)
      • Skinner (rat)
    • Danger->Fear   UCS -->UCR
      • Spider-->Fear    CS-->CR
        • The spider must have been present when something scary happened
    • Treatment of phobias
      • Flooding
        • Ethical implications
          • Person loses their right to withdraw
          • Stressful procedure
          • Difficult to protect the client and avoid harming them
      • Systematic desensitisation
        • The person with the phobia is taught to relax. The person and the therapist build a hierarchy of fears. The person gradually moves through the heirachy
        • Ethical implications
          • Children often treated with this method (as flooding can be too stressful
          • Person has the right to withdraw
          • No deception, less stressful
        • Takes longer than flooding but is an effective treatment
        • Can cost more as there is more than one sessions of therapy
    • Aversion therapy
      • An emetic is given to produce the vomiting reflex
        • The patient's desire decreases and the addiction is overcome
      • Evaluation
        • can be unpleasant for the person who has the treatment
        • Ethical issues have to be balanced against the possible benefits
        • Not always successful
        • Unless given additional support, they are likely to go back to their addictive behaviour once the treatment stops
    • Token economy programs
      • Set up in some hospitals to reward socially acceptable behaviour
      • Evaluation
        • Have produced improvements in behaviour for patients
        • They possibly only focus on the reward rather than on improving their behaviour
        • if reward is not immediate then the association is lost

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