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A Level Psychology of Abnormality: Explanation of Phobias

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Welcome! This post presents and illustrates the Explanation of Phobias: i) Behavioral Explanation of Phobias (classical conditioning, Watson, 1920); ii) Psychological Explanation of Phobias (Freud, 1909); iii) Biomedical/Genetic Explanation of Phobias (Ost, 1992); iv) Cognitive Explanation of Phobias (DiNardo et.al., 1988); as per the requirements of the IB IGCSE A 9990 syllabus including summaries of the studies mentioned in the section, and an evaluation of the explanations from the point of view of the issues and debates as outlined in the syllabus. It also includes an explanation of key terms from an operational point-of-view. Included in the last sections are specimen, model answers to paper 3 and paper 4 pertaining to this study.   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Specialization -Psychology and Abnormality Syllabus Reference -  3.2.1. (d)...