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Applications of Classical Conditioning. . Graduated Exposure :.
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Applications of Classical Conditioning. Graduated Exposure: = a technique used in the treatment of disorders involving fear and anxiety during which an individual is gradually exposed to increasingly similar stimuli that produce the conditioned response and ultimately to the conditioned stimuli itself.
Applications of Classical Conditioning. Graduated Exposure: Psychologists have developed ways of using classical condition processes to develop therapies for treating phobias and other mental health problems to do with fear or anxiety. Graduated exposure involves gradually introducing the client to increasingly similar stimuli that produces the conditioned response that requires extinction. The client is then slowly desensitised to the fear or anxiety causing object or event.
Applications of Classical Conditioning. Graduated Exposure: The therapist breaks down the fear into a hierarchy. Then, step by step exposure to each stage of the hierarchy building up to the most frightening aspect of the situation.
Applications of Classical Conditioning. Flooding: = involves bringing an individual into direct contact with an anxiety producing stimulus and keeping them in contact with it until the conditioned response is extinguished. Flooding is another type of therapy for treating fears, phobias and anxiety. In one case, a 31-year-old man reported a fear of being in fallen lifts. The fear developed when he was trapped in a lift on the seventh floor for about an hour. He became increasingly fearful that it would fall. His treatment involved confronting his fear by riding in lifts for a period of 90 minutes. After just one session, his fear of lifts disappeared.
Applications of Classical Conditioning. Aversion Therapy: = A form of therapy that applies classical conditioning processes to inhibit or discourage undesirable behaviour by associating it with an unpleasant stimulus such as a feeling of disgust, pain or nausea. Eg. Nail paint to stop biting nails. (Associate bad taste with nail biting). Originally used to stop alcoholism by associating it with electric shocks (now use nausea inducing drugs). READ 473
Applications of Classical Conditioning. Aversion Therapy: Limitation: Learned aversion often fails to generalise to situations other than those under which the learning took place. Possibly due to context dependant cues. Also used to help people to quit smoking (paired with nausea producing drug).
