Flooding

• Flooding

  Involves immediate exposure to a very frightening situation with NO gradual build up

  For example , Arachnophobia - have a large spider crawl over them for a long period of time
• Flooding

  Eliminates opportunity for avoidance behaviour , so the client quickly learns the phobic stimulus is harmless
• Flooding

  Extinction - Learned response is extinguished when the conditioned stimulus ( dog ) is encountered without the unconditioned stimulus ( being bitten )

  • Results is that the conditioned stimulus ( dog ) no longer produced the conditioned response ( fear )