Post by miluska7 on Sept 23, 2017 2:35:43 GMT
Classical conditioning could be used to treat alcohol abuse if there was a loud noise or something to that effect used as a negative stimuli every time the subject were to drink alcohol, that would create a negative response. Then the subject would associate this negative stimuli with the alcohol being consumed and over time the alcohol would seem unappealing to the subject.
The way that exposure therapy is used to treat phobias is by gradually exposing the subject to their phobia until the phobia is no longer seen as a threat that results in a negative response of fear. The idea being that the way that the phobia was acquired in the first place was due to a situation in which the phobia had been associated with a negative stimuli, creating the fear, and the exposure therapy works towards making the subject no longer associate that certain phobia with a negative/dangerous/fearful response. For example, when I was a child I watched the movie Poltergeist (horrible mistake) and after seeing the clown become paranormally possessed and attack the small boy, I developed a phobia of clowns. Before watching this movie I had no previous fear or reason to fear clowns, I thought they were comical and fun. However after the movie and how scary that scene was, I hereafter associate clowns with being dangerous.
The way that exposure therapy is used to treat phobias is by gradually exposing the subject to their phobia until the phobia is no longer seen as a threat that results in a negative response of fear. The idea being that the way that the phobia was acquired in the first place was due to a situation in which the phobia had been associated with a negative stimuli, creating the fear, and the exposure therapy works towards making the subject no longer associate that certain phobia with a negative/dangerous/fearful response. For example, when I was a child I watched the movie Poltergeist (horrible mistake) and after seeing the clown become paranormally possessed and attack the small boy, I developed a phobia of clowns. Before watching this movie I had no previous fear or reason to fear clowns, I thought they were comical and fun. However after the movie and how scary that scene was, I hereafter associate clowns with being dangerous.