An psychological explanation to understand phobias are classical conditioning which is defined as a learning process which occurs when you have two stimuli and they are repeatedly
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Phobias According to the Special Education Department ’s "Glossary of Psychiatric Disorders" catalogue‚ a "phobia is a persistent‚ irrational fear of a specific object‚ activity‚ or situation that results in a compelling desire to avoid it". A phobia is not an illness or a mental disorder. Nor is it a lack of will-power‚ or ’moral fibre ’‚ or determination. A phobia is a syndrome that can both develop independently within the limits of neurosis (after a caused fright or a serious psychical shock)
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Check Point: In Your Own Words If I were to try and explain frequency to a common foot soldier‚ I might go along the lines of something he would clearly understand; guns and bullets. To start‚ I would talk about firing a belt fed .50 caliber machine gun being fired at a lake with only every other shell being live. He would probably give me some guff about how the gun wouldn’t work because of the blowback required by each shell to cock and re cock the weapon‚ but I would ask him to just
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In the following essay I will be looking at both sides of the debate of whether neuroscience replaced psychology in explaining behavior. To begin with we must firstly understand what exactly neuroscience is and what it entails. It is generally defined as the study of how the nervous system develops‚ its structure and the functions it carries out. Neuroscientists study the brain and how it impacts on human beings behavior and cognitive functions. The study also looks at what occurs when things don’t
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We define a phobia as ‘an extreme or irrational fear of or aversion to something’. You are probably aware of the more common phobias‚ such asarachnophobia (fear of spiders)‚ claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces)‚ andagoraphobia (fear of open places)‚ but did you know there are also words which describe the fear of idleness‚ worms‚ and even body odour? Explore the table below to discover the terms for some of the more interesting phobias you may come across. Although if you suffer from logophobia (a
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tourism‚ together with the social and economic characteristics of tourist‚ but not to answer the question "why‚" the most interesting question of all tourist behaviour." (Fodness 1994‚ p. 556) While motivation is only one of many variables in explaining tourist behaviour‚ it is nonetheless a very critical one‚ as it constitutes the driving force behind all behaviour (Fodness 1994). Motivation sets the stage for forming people’s goals (Mansfeld 2000) and is reflected in both travel choice and behaviour;
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little five years old boy‚ called Hans‚ who suffered from horse phobia. Freud explained‚ his behaviour was related to the Oedipus conflict that develops between the age of three and six and drives a love towards the mother. In Freud’s theory‚ the horse symbolizes the father and because the boy unconsciously worried about the father punishing him‚ the phobia of horses developed. The boy recovered from his fear‚ after the reason for the phobia became conscious the father assured him‚ he would not punish
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as related to Phobias and Addictions Many people who suffer from phobias also suffer from addictions. This is largely due in part to the reluctance to seek professional treatment for the phobia. People turn to other means to cope with their phobias which in turn leads to addictions. Dependence is such an issue with addiction that stopping is very difficult and causes severe physical and mental reactions. Therapist use a technique called extinction to treat patients with phobias and addictions
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Social Phobia The effects of Social Phobia INTRODUCTION Social Phobia is an anxiety disorder that affects a large number of the world population. Large strides have been made to understand this disorder and to help overcome it with drug therapy as well as with behavioral therapy. Social Phobia in more than half the population seems to precede certain disorders like Substance abuse disorder‚ Panic disorder and depression. Unlike other specific phobia’s‚ social phobia begins in later adolescence
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Phobias and Addictions Mary E. Aikens Psy 300 September 26‚ 2010 Richard Alpert Phobias and Addictions Classical and Operant conditioning are ways in which a person learns. Classical conditioning is a learned response and operant conditioning is a response through the environment. Phobias can develop through learning. Classical conditioning can teach a person to fear‚ such as a small child can learn to fear needles because of immunization injections received in a doctor’s office or clinic
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