Going off of conditioned learning, behavioral psychologists use a type of therapy known as exposure therapy to treat anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, etc. The basis of the treatment is to expose the patient to the feared thing the person is dealing with. Through exposing the client to their fear, there will be a decrease of the fear due to facing the fear and realizing there is nothing to be worried about. This goes off the basis of how with conditioned learning, one can create fears involuntary, so exposing individuals to their fears can undo the conditioned learning (Prenoveau, Craske, Liao & Ornitz, 2013). An example of exposure therapy would be putting someone in a bathroom who has OCD about cleanliness. Through demonstrating that the germs will not hurt the person, the fear will decrease or hopefully become extinct.
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By associating instances of the color red with violence, the particular reason derives the quasi-universal judgement that all red objects of a certain type are dangerous” (p. 78). The universal of the color red for human beings as a whole is not a bad or an evil, but for this particular individual, red symbolizes something bad or is associated with something dangerous. To help further explain this connection, Miner (2014) states that: “The particular reason, according to Aquinas, is the power that enables a person to attach a set of particular sensible qualities to images stored in the imagination that are directly connected with experiences of pain” (p. 78). Seeing the color red allowed Marnie to remember an image stored in the imagination that is connected to pain, so now she views red as dangerous. The interesting thing is though, that there is nothing about the form of
Now that there is a base level of understanding what each of the terms mean, a more in depth discussion of particular …show more content…
By associating instances of the color red with violence, the particular reason derives the quasi-universal judgement that all red objects of a certain type are dangerous” (p. 78). The universal of the color red for human beings as a whole is not a bad or an evil, but for this particular individual, red symbolizes something bad or is associated with something dangerous. To help further explain this connection, Miner (2014) states that: “The particular reason, according to Aquinas, is the power that enables a person to attach a set of particular sensible qualities to images stored in the imagination that are directly connected with experiences of pain” (p. 78). Seeing the color red allowed Marnie to remember an image stored in the imagination that is connected to pain, so now she views red as dangerous. The interesting thing is though, that there is nothing about the form of