When using Classical Conditioning to help patients overcome their phobias, Psychologists can use a variety of methods. When a pleasant stimulus is paired repeatedly with a fearful one, counteracting the fear, this is known as:

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Please wait while the activity loads.
If this activity does not load, try refreshing your browser. Also, this page requires javascript. Please visit using a browser with javascript enabled.

If loading fails, click here to try again

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]

A	Flooding
B	Systematic Desensitization
C	Counterconditioning
D	Retroactive Rehearsal

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Classical conditioning in therapies Exposure therapies are often used for anxiety disorders and phobias. The person is exposed to what they fear. Over time they’re conditioned to no longer fear it. Aversion therapy aims to stop a harmful behavior by replacing a positive response with a negative response.

Detailed explanation-2: -The process of classical conditioning can explain how we acquire phobias. For example, we learn to associate something we do not fear, such as a dog (neutral stimulus), with something that triggers a fear response, such as being bitten (unconditioned stimulus).

Detailed explanation-3: -Systematic desensitization (Wolpe, 1961) is an exposure technique that utilizes relaxation strategies to help calm the individual as they are presented with the fearful object.

Detailed explanation-4: -Clinical psychologists make use of classical conditioning to explain the learning of a phobia-a strong and irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation. For example, driving a car is a neutral event that would not normally elicit a fear response in most people.

There is 1 question to complete.

CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

OPERANT CONDITIONING