phobias

• phobia is an irrational fear
• specific phobia - fear of specific object or situation
• agoraphobia - fear of not being able to escape
• social anxiety disorder - social phobias
• phobias cognitive symptoms - irrational beliefs about the stimulus
• phobias behavioural symptoms - avoiding social situations - altering behaviour to avoid fear
• phobias physical symptoms - activation of fight or flight
• phobis emotional symptoms - anxiety and dread
• behavioural model of abnormality says that all behaviours are learnt
• behaviours are learnt through classical and maintained by operant
• lassical - association with a stimulus
• operant - learnt through consequences
• mowrer - two process model - classical and operant conditioning
• strengths of behavioural - behaviour therapies are effective
• strengths behavioural - barlow and durand - 50% had experienced classical conditioning
• weaknesses behavioural - davey - only 7% of fear of spiders had a traumatic experience
• phobias can be treated with behavioural therapy
• systematic desensitisation - exposure therapy - make a fear hierarchy - taught relaxation techniques - imagine fearful situations - exposed to feat
• flooding - exposure therapy - expose patient to feared stimulus until anxiety subsides
• pro of behavioural therapy - zinbarg - systematic desensitiation was the most effective
• cons of behavioural therapy - expensive and time consuming
• crit behaviour therapy - treats symptoms only
• reciporcal inhibition - cannot feel two emotions at once
• reciporcal inhibition - cannot feel two emotions at once