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    • outline the behaviourist approach for treating phobias
      • 1. getting the phobia
        • two process model, Mowrer
          • classical conditioning
            • UCS-UCR, NS, CS-CR
              • Little Albert
        • learning by association
          • pavlov's law of contiguity
            • the stimuli have to be close together in itme
      • 2. keeping the phobia
        • negative reinforcement
          • relief is experienced when we avoid the phobia, strengething our fear
            • behaviour shaping
    • evaluate the behaviourist approach for developing phobias
      • Strongly nurture side of the debate, lacks an interactinist approach. Doesnt allow for ancient fears
      • practical applications, systematic desensitisation, counter conditions the phobia
      • evironmentally determinist
        • can make clear predicitons e.g little albert
        • lacks an interactionist approach of how phobias develop
      • experiments conducted on animals, can't extrapolate the results to humans
    • experimental design and experiment type
      • Type= lab, natural, quasi
      • Design= repeated measures, matched paies, indpenedent groups
    • 2 cognitive characteristics of OCD
      • obsessions
      • compulsions are excessive or unreasonable
    • how to do a random sample
      • 1. define target population and sample size
      • 2. assign each participant a number
      • 3. select sample in an unbiased way e.g through a number generator
    • evaluate independent groups design
      • it reduces order effects as the participants only partake in one condition of the experiement
      • cannot control for characteristics which may be drastically different in the groups and affect performance e.g IQ level
    • deviation of social norms with example
      • a person's behaviour is defined as abnormal if it violates social norms
        • e.g its common in Southern Europe to stand closer to strangers than in the UK
    • 3 features of SLT
      • learning through observation
        • learning by imitation
      • learning by vicarious reinforcement

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