PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Systematic Desensitization, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Fear Conditioning

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Slide 21 view of the etiology of phobias. One of them are much more prevalent views and it serves as the foundation for a number of different treatments. Is the behavioral view. behavioral view is based on conditioned fear. Based on the idea that sometime in the individual"s past. The feared class of objects one member of the feared class of objects heights dogs cats spiders rats snakes whatever happens to be. Was experienced in conjunction with immediately preceding some negative aversive painful experience. And because of fear conditioning is very rapid doesn"t take. More than one presentation just to learn to be afraid of things. That situation or object class of object shows up again. It serves as a condition stimulus triggering and conditioned conditioned fear response. Experience was with one particular instance of a class of objects one particular snake one particular rat whatever. That fear becomes is elicited by a range of stimuli similar to.