Psychology - Chapter 4: Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Mas et al., (2010)

Diagnostic criteria: Aim to find out whether BIPI has good concurrent validity and reliability

Ost et al., (1992)

Biological explanation - Lab and self-reported study on 81 individuals with Blood phobia and 59 with injection phobia. 50% BP has parents, 21% InjP.

Watson and Rayner - Little Albert (1920)

Behavioral explanation - Classical conditioning in producing anxiety. Albert associated a white rat with the loud banging noise that triggers a fearful emotion, thus fearing the rat and is generalized to other fluffy white objects

Freud - Little Hans (1909)

The fear of the father is then projected onto a horse in which the fear/anxiety response is the ego mediating the effect of the id - superego conflict.

Wolpe (1958)

Behavioral treatment: Systematic desensitization - Tackling conditioned stimulus association with fearful response through reciprocal inhibition. Fear is placed opposing with calm, relaxed feeling produce my muscle and breathing exercises. Fear hierarchy involved

Chapman and DeLapp (2014)

Cognitive behavioral therapy: CBT and applied tension in treating BII of a 42 year old white male. Applied tension was used to increase blood pressure while facing stimuli, preventing vasovagal response, decreasing the fear of fainting thus dampens the phobia.