PHOBIAS

Explore phobias' behavioural, emotional, and cognitive characteristics, including avoidance behaviours, irrational fears, and distorted thought patterns. Learn about the behavioural approach to explaining phobias through the two-process model, highlighting the roles of classical conditioning (how phobias are acquired) and operant conditioning (how they are maintained). Discover treatments such as systematic desensitisation, using relaxation techniques and gradual exposure through a hierarchy, and flooding, involving immediate and intense exposure to the phobic stimulus to extinguish fear responses.