1) It's supported by little albert 2) Supported by survey studies
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What is a limitation of this explanation?
it is an incomplete explanation of phobias. Misses out the evelutionary factors in gaining a phobia.
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How are phobias maintained?
Through operant conditioning
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What is a strenght of the explanation?
Supported by studies showing the effectiveness of behavioural therapies
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What is a weakness of this explanation?
Phobics may be more motivated by feelings of safety rather than fear
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What are the treatments for phobias?
Systematic desensitisation + flooding
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what is the effectiveness of the treatments?
Both are effective but flooding is slightly more
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What is the appropriateness of the treatments?
SD is more acceptable to patients, but flooding is quicker and cheaper
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What are the behavioural characteristics of depression?
activity levels, distruption to sleep/eating, aggression and self-harm
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What are the emotional characteristics?
lower mood, anger, low self-esteem
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What are the cognitive characteristics?
Poor concentration, attending to the negative, absolutist thinking
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What are the behavioual characteristics of OCD?
repetitive cpmpulsion, compulsions reduce the anxiety, avoidance
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What are the emotional characteristics?
anxiety + distress, accompanying depression, guilt and disgust
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What are the congnitive characteristics?
obsessive thoughts, cognitive stratagies to dea, insight into excessive anxiety
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What are the neural explanations of OCD?
Low serotonin, Frontal Lobes may be impaired
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What doi the frontal lobes do?
They control decision making and logical thoughts
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What is the genetic explanation of OCD?
genes are inherited, genes build the brain, the brain is the source of all mental states, OCD is a disorder of mental states so therefore OCD could be inherited.
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what are the three ways we class the characteristics of phobias?
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Card 4
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