Psychopathology - Behavioural approach to explaining and treating phobias

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  • Created on: 17-11-19 11:52

1. Which of the following is an example of an anxiety hierarchy for an arachnophobic?

  • Staying outside in a closed off area, going into a street filled with buildings, standing in a large empty feild
  • Being in a room with many spiders, being locked in the same room, being locked in the same room with deadly spiders
  • Seeing a drawing of a spider, seeing a photograph of multiple spiders, being in the same room as a spider, holding a spider
  • Being in a small room, going into a larger room, opening a door to the outside, stepping outside
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2. Systematic Desensitisation is reinforcement cannot occur and extinction does occuhe process of immediate exposure to the phobic stimuli so that negative reir

  • False
  • True

3. Positive reinforcement is being rewarded for performing a particular behaviour

  • True
  • False

4. Which of the following statements is true for systematic desensitisation

  • It has a high refusal rate
  • It has a high attrition rate
  • It has a low attrition rate
  • It is unethical

5. What is reciprocal inhibition?

  • Preventing a patient avoiding their phobic stimuli so they become tired and no longer have a fear response towards the stimuli
  • The prevention of one emotion using another (relaxation replaces fear)
  • The introduction of a new emotion whilst experiencing an existing one so that that is associated with the phobic stimuli as well (fear and relaxation)

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