U4 AOS2 Dot Point 10

Question 1

biological factors for specific phobia

Answer 1

GABA dysfunction
stress response
LTP

Question 2

GABA dysfunction symptoms

Answer 2

anxiety
fight-flight-freeze response triggered more easily

Question 3

what is GABA dysfunction

Answer 3

where the body fails to produce, release or receive the correct amount needed to regulate neuronal transmission in the brain

Question 4

the role of the stress response in phobias

Answer 4

the stress response to a phobic stimulus is often triggered in the absence of any real threat and tends to be excessive
more likely to occur if there is also GABA dysfunction

Question 5

Psychological factors in phobias

Answer 5

Behavioural Model:
classical conditioning
operant conditioning

Cognitive Model:
cognitive bias
memory bias
catastrophic thinking

Question 6

ABC operant conditioning - phobia

Answer 6

Antecedent - fear and seeing phobic stimulus
Behaviour - Avoidance
Consequence - fear is reduced (negative reinfocement)

Question 7

what is cognitive bias

Answer 7

tendency to think in a way that involves errors in judgement and faulty decision making

Question 8

what is memory bias

Answer 8

memories are distorted though reconstruction to incorporate our fears

whenever we recall a past experience we exaggerate the difference between what we felt and what we currently feel
this leads to phobias growing over time
results in recalling only the negative information

Question 9

what is catastrophic thinking

Answer 9

overestimating, exaggerating or magnifying a situation and predicting the worst possible outcome
underestimate ability to cope

Question 10

social factors relating to phobias

Answer 10

specific environmental triggers
stigma

Question 11

what are specific environmental triggers

Answer 11

a direct, negative traumatic experience with the phobic stimulus