Limitation 1

One limitation fo the behavioural approach to explaining phobias is that it does not consider the…

Wide range of factors that impact on human behaviour or their interaction

For example, it suggests that phobias are acquired solely by ____________________ or by the associations we form, known as ______________

Our experience of reward and punishment

Stimulus response learning

There are other factors that could contribute to the development of phobias, including…

Our biology

For example, the theory of _____________, proposed by Seligman, suggests that humans may be more likely to develop phobias of things that were ____________________, like snakes and the dark

Biological preparedness

Dangerous in our evolutionary past

Therefore, this approach may be ___________ in explaining something as complex as _________. So it could be argued that it is an example of _________________

Too simplistic

Human fears

Stimulus-response reductionism