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A weakness of the behavioural explanation of phobias?

Author: (Pippa) Pippa Holloway



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- Doesn't provide complete explanation, does not consider genetics -Seligman aruges that animals and humans are genetically programmed to learn an association between a potentially life threatening stimulus and fear. -Would have been adaptive to repidly avoid acient fears like height and snakes, bc theses would have been dangerous to us in our evolutionary past. -Innate predisposition to certain phobias, biological preparedness and casts doubt to two-process model - suggests that there is more to phobias to classical conditioning


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