The Use of Conditioning to Create or Eliminate Phobias
Conditioning, or “a basic kind of learning that involves associations between environmental stimuli and the organism’s responses”, can be used to modify behavior. Studies and experiments have shown that conditioning can be used to create or eliminate phobias. One way to condition a child who is unafraid of a busy road is to use classical conditioning In this example, you could use something that the child is already afraid of to train her to be afraid when crossing the street.…...
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An Evaluation of the Behavioural Approaches to Phobias
Mowrer proposed the two-process model Classical conditioning says that we learn phobias by association. We associate a neutral stimulus with an unconditional stimulus, which then leads to a new association being learned. For example, if our unconditioned stimulus is the sound of a metal bar being struck this leads to an unconditioned response of fear. If we pair the unconditioned stimulus with a neutral stimulus of a white rat. then we will learn to associate the sound of the metal…...
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Life Insurance With NO Medical Exam Phobia
The odds are that if you are reading this article, you are in one of the situations below: Afraid of needles? Don’t have time? Worried you’ll have potential health issues? Whatever your situation is you’ve come to the right place! Let’s first digest being afraid of needles. Your friends, family, and strangers may not understand this. We know that it is more than just a fear, it’s called trypanophobia an extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.…...
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Treatment of Phobias and Irrational Fears
Hypnosis has a wide range of clinical applications like pain management which has four stages focus one’s attention, 2. Deepening- to deepen one’s relaxation of the body for changes in the client’s experience of pain and Debriefing- to go over what transpired. Beyond taking a person (who was part of a study, etc.) throughout these common stages, an adviser may engage in changing or trying a different approach. They probably are going to want to focus on changing the feeling…...
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Phobias Explored in The Shawshank Redemption’s Brooke
In Shawshank's Redemption, there is an old prisoner named Brooke who was sentenced to life imprisonment for murder in his youth and was admitted to Shawshank Prison. Brooke, who attended college, was a rare intellectual in the prison and was sent to manage the library. Compared with other prisoners who work hard, his work is enviable, leisurely and comfortable. Brooke is honest, working hard, obeying the rules, and never messing up. As he served longer and longer, his status in…...
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