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Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
A phobia is a fear that is
about something life threatening.
out of proportion to the danger
easy to overcome.
only mildly upsetting
The sample in this study is
47 young adults with a phobia of buttons
A 12 year old white girl with fear of buttons
A 9 year old Hispanic boy
72 children aged 9-12
What research method is used in this study?
Lab experiment
Case study
Naturalistic Observation
Field Experiment
The phobia began when
The child got hurt by a button on their shirt
The children were annoyed by the buttons in their uniform
The child was hurt by someone wearing a lot of buttons
A bowl of buttons fell on the child
Which did not happen in the Positive Reinforcement Therapy / Behavioural exposure stage of treatmen
Treatment sessions lasted for 30 mins with the boy
Subjective ratings were noted about the buttons he feared
A hierarchy of fear was followed during exposure
He imagined buttons falling on him
The DSM-IV diagnosis concluded that he had which type of abnormality?
Specific Phobia
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Agoraphobia
Arachnophobia
The distress rating for hugging mum when she wears large plastic buttons was...
3
4
7
5
The sampling method in the Saavedra and Silverman study was
opportunity sampling
volunteer sampling
random sampling
free sampling
Which of the following is true of the "Feelings Thermometer"
Included 9 points
Operationalized the fear of buttons
Was a scale of disgust
All of the above
When did the button phobia for the participant begin?
When a teacher scolded him for taking too many buttons
In school, buttons from a bowl fell on him causing distress
When other students at made fun of the buttons on his coat
When he accidentally swallowed a button at a young age
The therapy that the participant was to receive involved.
gradual increased behavioral exposure to buttons only
looking into the boy's disgust imagery and cognitions only
both behavioral exposure to buttons and imagery/cognitions
all of the above are incorrect
The imagery sessions involved all of the following except?
Imagining how the buttons looked
Imagining how the buttons smelled
Imagining how the buttons felt
Imagining how the buttons tasted
The distress ratings and severity ratings represent what kind of data
Qualitative
Both Qualitative and Quantitative
Quantitative
Neither Qualitative nor Qualitative
Answers to questions of why the boy found buttons disgusting would be classified as
Qualitative
Neither Quantitative nor Qualitative
Quantitative
Both Quantitative and Qualitative
A subtype of classical conditioning where attitudes toward stimuli are the result of complex cognitive process and feelings is called ...
imitative learning
evaluative learning
expectancy learning
The difference between a fear and a phobia is
that a fear is an intense alarm and a phobia is a warning.
that there really isn't a difference.
that a fear is a basic emotion and a phobia is an intense fear
that they are the exact same thing.
What type of conditioning forms the basis of treating phobias?
Operant Conditioning
Exposure Conditioning
Classical Conditioning
Social Learning
The Saavedra and Silverman study took place at
Cambridge University
Florida International University
Yale University
University of Florida
The subject(s) were the most afraid of
Small plastic buttons on shirts
Large plastic or metal buttons on sweaters
Buttons on jeans
Buttons that make a loud noise when you press them
