Phobias

Question 1

Behavioural characteristics

Answer 1

Panic - might panic in presence of phobic inject. Crying running freezing fainting
Avoidance - when faced with it response is to evade
Endurance- may remain in presence of phobic object frozen + unable to move

Question 2

Emotional characteristics

Answer 2

Fear - persistent excessive ,+ unreasonable worry and distress felt in presence of phobic object
Anxiety -when they encounter object , person will feel terror + uncertainty

Question 3

Cognitive characteristics

Answer 3

Selective attention - when the person encounters the phobic object, they will become fixated on it coz of irrational beliefs ab danger posed

Irrational beliefs - persons thoughts ab their phobias don’t make logical sense , + will resist rational arguments that counter it.
Distorted perception of the stimulus

Question 4

Behavioural explanational of phobias two process model

Answer 4

1- phobia is initiated through classical conditioning
2- phobia maintained through operant conditioning

Question 5

Classic conditioning
(Associate an involuntary response w stimulus)

Answer 5

Learning through association
-a stimulus produces the same response as another stimulus as they have been constantly presented at the same time.
-little Albert (Watson +raynor)