Systematic+Desensitization


 * Systematic Desensitization**

Be sure to read page 207 of //Introductory Psychology 8th Edition// and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systematic_desensitization

Assume that your group, behavioral psychologists, has been hired to consult with a high school full of students suffering from an array of phobias. As such they have asked you to address one of those phobias (your group will be assigned one from the list below) with your method of treatment called ‘Systematic Desensitization.’

Possible phobias:
 * 1) Fear of girls (for a male student)
 * 2) Fear of tests Fear of teachers.
 * 3) Fear of spiders.
 * 4) Fear of being in crowds.


 * Part I**

Before you can develop a treatment program to modify this person’s behavior, you **need to think of ways this behavior may have been learned during childhood.** Your group is to imagine how this student learned through classical condition to develop so much anxiety due to their fear. //Label each stimulus and response of the events you have imagined with UCS, UCR, CS, CR, and NS.//


 * Part II**

Using the scenario you have imagined above, develop a treatment plan using the three steps in Systematic Desensitization procedure from the text and the wikipage mentioned above.


 * Part III**

Present to class. (Use no more than three minutes).