Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Systematic Desensitization, Behaviour Therapy, Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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Questions of the day: how are memories acquired, how do we remember, why do we forget, exam dec 17th 2pm. Room: alumni hall gym 201 (but double check on owl. Intense irrational fear of an object or situation. Anxiety disorder- but patient is still in touch with reality: types of treatments: Fear viewed as cr so extinguish by repeated presentation. Patient continuously presented with fearful object until it no longer produces a response. Note: patient must be willing to expose self to fear for prolongues intervals. Not always possible to expose depending on what one is fearful of. Think about being in a room full of snakes. Replace cr of fear with a more pleasant response ex. You are afraid of snakes, but really like chocolate: 1. Pair the feared object (low) with the positive ucs-ucr given chocolate while looking at pictures of cuddly snakes: 3.