The Behavioural model of abnormality and treatments
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- Created on: 17-05-14 15:03
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2. How are taste aversions created?
- If you are ill after a certain food, it's taste becomes a conditioned stimulus producing a conditioned response of nausea
- We experience anxiety around phobic stimuli and avoid them, this prevents anxiety and acts as negative reinforcement
3. Which is an example of a conditioned stimulus triggering an unconditioned response?
- A certain stimulus (a loud noise) triggers a natural reflex (fear)
- Unconditioned stimulus(a loud noise) is presented repeatly at the same time as another stimulus (a rat) which triggers an unconditioned response (fear)
- The rat presented by itself triggers a conditioned response (fear)
4. What are the strengths of the behavioural model?
- It's a scientific approach with testable concepts and the associated therapies have proved very effective in a variety of situations
- It cannot explain all behaviours as it neglects genetics, biology and cognition, the therapies are not effective for all disorders and may be seen as unethic as well as only treating the behaviour not the cause.
5. Where in real life application are operant conditioning therapies used?
- Psychiatric hospitals, they remove the reinforcements of abnormal behaviours and give new reinforcemens for better behaviours
- Psychiatric hospitals, they remove the reinforcements of normal behaviours and give new reinforcemens for abnormal behaviours
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