Expectations and what not
Overall for this course, I was really surprised by how fast things are moving as far as the learning goes. This being my first AP course makes it difficult, but also interesting. A few things I'm hoping to learn more about is what our dreams have in accordance to why they happen. I'm also interested as to why various people have different sexual preferences such as homo, bi, and heterosexuality. Is it genetic, cultural, behavioral, or is there another reason or are we just "born that way"? I'm really hoping that this course will answer these questions as well as the various other questions I'm hoping to obtain as the course continues.
Weekly Blogging Assignment
I decided to research an article that had to do with phobias and methods to get rid of them. This article closely relates to the behavioral perspective in which a person reacts a certain way to a situation. On this article, it talked about how the treatment, known as flooding, is a general method in curing people of unrealistic phobias. An example of flooding is by putting a person in a room with the thing that they have a phobia of. Of course, the general reaction is that they will be terrified but after a series of a couple hours generally, they will calm down and learn to realize that there is nothing to be truly be afraid of. Flooding isn't a very ethical method of treatment but it does however, work. You probably wouldn't find a therapist or psychiatrist that would perform this treatment today but in the 1960s, this was a common method. Psychologist Thomas Stampfl created a technique known as implosion therapy. In this therapy session, a person was exposed to sounds and detailed descriptions of the thing they feared most. Their reactions as well as the sounds/descriptions were recorded for the person to take home and listen to as 'homework'. By doing this, a person can learn to cope with the fear and in good time, it's concluded that a person can overcome their unrealistic, traumatic fears.
Link: http://www.psychologistworld.com/behavior/flooding.php
First off, flooding just sounds like a horrible way to cure somebody of their phobias; even the name sounds creepy. Secondly, to have to listen to your reactions to your fears sounds scary, but interesting. If somebody showed me what I looked like if there was a spider right by me, I would freak out while watching the video.
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