The Behavioural Approach
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- The Behavioural Approach
- Watson, Rayner and Little Albert
- classical conditioning of a phobia
- worked with 11 month old Albert
- tested responses to fluffy white objects - no fear
- reached for rat, 4ft long steel bar was hit to startle him
- conditioned response to neutral objects
- repeated 3 times and the next week - when done he cried, so conditioned fear response
- died from water on the brain
- Seligman's dogs (1975)
- learned helplessness - psychological state where humans/animals have learned to act
- operant conditioning
- dog in a box, separated into two
- when floor shocked, dog jumped to the other side
- when restrained, endured shock - restraints off stayed still
- maladaptive learning
- Mineka (1988) - Snake Phobia
- social and evolutionary theory
- through social learning theory they learn fear response
- need some experience with fear stimulus to gain phobia
- evolutionary preparedness
- Evaluation
- 1. offers an explanation based on observable behaviour 2.in evolution what you do is what counts for survival
- reduces the mental disorder to stimulus >response - over simplification
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- Watson, Rayner and Little Albert
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