PSYC 350 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Specific Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Rush Hour
11 Apr 2017
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Biological model: preparedness hypothesis (mineka"s studies) also, genetic vulnerability (h = ~. 30: highly neurotic people tend to have higher genetic vulnerability. Psychodynamic model: phobic object is symbol of inner conflict. Behavioral model: classical conditioning: how the environment shapes us (environmentalists, we are conditioned to fear certain things, some phobias are acquired through classical conditioning. Cognitive: observational learning: what you think about things will determine what you fear, observational learning: ex. As a child, if we see a parent reacting to something fearfully, we will assume that something is to be feared. Acquired phobia during childhood when her and her mom were making cookies and a mouse came out into the kitchen and her mom 100% wigged out. Exposure-based psychotherapy has ~90% cure rate (sadly, only 12% of practicing therapists have training in exposure) Because it"s tradition/legacy (people have been doing non-behavioral therapy for so long even though it doesn"t work) Habituation is the simplest learning mechanism in animals.
