Lesson 4.1.4.3

4.1.4.3 Behavioural approach to phobias Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 1

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The 20 questions

  1. Which two processes form Mowrer's two-process model of phobias?

    • Psychodynamic and behavioural
    • Social and cognitive
    • Biological and humanistic
    • Classical and operant

  2. According to the two-process model, how are phobias acquired?

    • Operant conditioning
    • Social learning
    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Classical conditioning

  3. According to the two-process model, how are phobias maintained?

    • Classical conditioning
    • Social learning
    • Genetic inheritance
    • Operant conditioning

  4. What list of feared situations ordered from least to most frightening is used in systematic desensitisation?

    • Desensitisation index
    • Fear scale
    • Anxiety hierarchy
    • Phobic ladder

  5. Which technique is taught to the patient before working through an anxiety hierarchy?

    • Biofeedback
    • Relaxation
    • Cognitive restructuring
    • Free association

  6. Which behavioural phobia treatment involves immediate, prolonged exposure to the most feared stimulus?

    • Aversion therapy
    • Systematic desensitisation
    • Flooding
    • Rational emotive therapy

  7. Unlike systematic desensitisation, how does flooding expose patients to their phobic stimulus?

    • Gradually
    • Subliminally
    • Immediately
    • Indirectly

  8. Working through a hierarchy of phobic situations while maintaining relaxation describes which behavioural therapy?

    • Flooding
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Cognitive behavioural therapy
    • Systematic desensitisation

  9. A person with a fear of heights is placed on a high platform and not allowed to leave until the fear reduces. Which treatment is being used?

    • Flooding
    • Systematic desensitisation
    • Relaxation training alone
    • Cognitive behaviour therapy

  10. What is a major disadvantage of flooding compared to systematic desensitisation?

    • Lack of effectiveness
    • High attrition rates
    • Long treatment duration
    • High financial cost

  11. What key advantage does systematic desensitisation have over flooding regarding patient acceptability?

    • Higher economic cost
    • Requires no effort
    • Faster treatment completion
    • Lower attrition rates

  12. Watson and Rayner demonstrated that a phobia could be acquired through which process?

    • Operant conditioning
    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Social learning
    • Classical conditioning

  13. In Mowrer's two-process model, how are phobias maintained over time?

    • Social learning
    • Operant conditioning
    • Biological preparedness
    • Classical conditioning

  14. What type of reinforcement maintains a phobia when avoiding the phobic stimulus reduces anxiety?

    • Vicarious reinforcement
    • Negative reinforcement
    • Positive reinforcement
    • Intermittent reinforcement

  15. According to Hobart Mowrer's two-process model, how is a phobia initially acquired?

    • Classical conditioning
    • Biological preparedness
    • Social learning
    • Operant conditioning

  16. Which principle states that two opposing emotions, like fear and relaxation, cannot coexist?

    • Counter-conditioning
    • Extinction
    • Spontaneous recovery
    • Reciprocal inhibition

  17. Which behavioural process describes replacing a phobic fear response with a relaxed response?

    • Habituation
    • Extinction
    • Counter-conditioning
    • Reciprocal inhibition

  18. What term describes confronting a phobic stimulus in real life during systematic desensitisation?

    • In vitro exposure
    • Covert desensitisation
    • Implosive exposure
    • In vivo exposure

  19. Seligman suggested humans are genetically predisposed to acquire certain phobias due to what concept?

    • Two-process model
    • Biological preparedness
    • Negative reinforcement
    • Reciprocal inhibition

  20. What mechanism underlies systematic desensitisation in treating phobias?

    • Classical extinction
    • Counter-conditioning
    • Operant conditioning
    • Vicarious reinforcement

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