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(Methodology and procedure) 1. what was a strength of the research method?

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Controlled observation - controlled

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(Methodology and procedure) 1. EVs were controlled for, such as what?

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Location
Lighting
Timing 
Objects
Sample
3
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(Methodology and procedure) 1. how was the sample controlled?

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Albert selected for being an emotionally stable baby

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(Methodology and procedure) 1. the use of blocks was controlled it allowed the comparison of what?

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Alberts responses to the objects he was presented with

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(Methodology and procedure) 1. Albert was also filmed allowing for what?

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Observation of behaviour

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(Methodology and procedure) 1. The controls mean you can establish what?

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Cause and effect relationship

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(Methodology and procedure) 2. What was a problem of the sample?

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One child

Hard to generalise

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(Methodology and procedure) 2. What was Watson and Rayners intention? Why didn’t they do it?

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To study multiple participants and compare

Dismissed from the university

9
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(Methodology and procedure) 2. Without comparisons we don’t know if the observed responses are what?

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Unique to Albert or generalisable to others

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(Alternative evidence) 3. Why can the conclusion that phobias are learnt through conditioning be questioned?

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Evolutionary explanations for phobias

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(Alternative evidence) 3. The biological preparedness theory argues we are genetically programmed to do what?

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fear stimuli that would have been potentially dangerous in the EEA

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(Alternative evidence) 3. Hebb found monkeys were more likely to fear what than other test objects?

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Model snakes

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(Alternative evidence) 3. Mineka raised monkeys having no experience of real snakes what did they do when presented with a model?

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Showed moderate fear

When it moved their fear increased

14
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(Alternative evidence) 3. The monkeys didn’t show this response to what?

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Other toys

15
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(Alternative evidence) 3. Findings suggest phobias can be what?

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Nature - inbuilt

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(Alternative evidence) 3. But the research was conducted on monkeys meaning what?

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We can’t generalise

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(Alternative evidence) 4. Not all phobias are preceded by what?

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Conditioning episode/traumatic experience

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(Alternative evidence) 4. It may be the experience did occur but what?

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Too young to remember it

Repression

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(Alternative evidence) 5. DiNardo - not all people having a traumatic incident do what?

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Develop a phobia

So learning alone can’t explain phobias

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(Alternative evidence) 5. Watson and rayner would say only who would develop a phobia?

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Those constitutionally inferior

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(Alternative evidence) 6. The two process theory says classical conditioning is not what?

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Complete explanation for phobias

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(Alternative evidence) 6. If CC was involved in creating the phobia what might happen?

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Disappear overtime

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(Alternative evidence) 6. In the little Albert study what happened when a gap was left between sessions?

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Phobia lessened

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(Alternative evidence) 6. Meyers two process theory says classical conditioning is what?

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How a phobia is developed first

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(Alternative evidence) 6. Myers two way theory says operant conditioning explains what?

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The maintenance of the phobia

Avoiding the phobia removes anxiety (NR) so the phobic behaviour continues

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