flooding Flashcards
who and when was this developed?
- Thomas Stampfl 1967
what type of therapy is this?`
exposure therapy
what is it based on?
- classical conditioning
what does the process involve?
- a person being physically placed in a situation with their phobia and not being able to get out
what is the continual exposure of the phobia mean’t to lead to?
- similar to SD as it goes on the assumptions that you cant be scared and relaxed
- it will lead to less fear until there is no fear and it will be replaced with a different response
why might a person become calm again?
- being tired
what happens when a person becomes nervous?
- the activation of the nervous system stops the action of the parasympathetic nervous system which therefore enables an alarm reaction.
how long can this “alarm reaction” go on for?
a period of time but at some point it will eventually stop
- this is because the alarm reactions causes a fight or flight response due to the high blood sugar putting the body on high alert.
what happens when this energy runs out?
when the energy is used up there is no more available and the body will calm and the parasympathetic nervous system will take control.
how does the patient begin to feel calm towards the phobia?
they begin to associate the calm feeling with their fear and therefore no longer have the phobia.
what is a practical strength of the treatment?
it is quick as it only involves one session of extreme exposure therapy.
what is weakness of the study?
- some have been seen to find the treatment increases anxiety rather than treating it
- Barrett found that when using implosion therapy one student made the association of closing his eyes with his fear of snakes meaning she could not sleep.
