% of people with anxiety
36% moderate anxiety; 12% severe anxiety
Definition of phobia
an unreasonable or excessive fear of an object or situation
Types of error:
Phonemicist - the perceptual infection of an object, even if it contradicts the child’s real knowledge of that object, overrides all other representations i.e. defining something through its appearance
Intellectual realism error - tendency of young children to indicate incorrectly all that is present in an object array when asked to indicate only what they can see
. What is an example of positive reinforcement?
a behaviour is followed by a rewarding outcome.
- Which patient would you be most likely to use the medical model of care when treating?
Diagnosis and treatment, focus is objective disease. Expect symptoms to resolve with treatment, continued symptoms= unresolved pathology
- COM-B model involves behaviour, capability, opportunity and what else?
Motivation
- Which of the 5 options best suits as a description of the 5 areas model?
General stuff about 5 areas:
thoughts , emotions, physical sensations, behaviours, social context
Informs many psychological interventions.
Provides a framework for organising how we describe an experience.
Each aspect is thought to influence all of the other aspects.
Small changes in each aspect of the model can add together and lead to significant changes
- Thoughts, context, behaviour and physical reactions are aspects of the 5 areas model, what is the 5th area?
emotions - feel anxious, ashamed etc,
- What is the best description of nociception?
Transmission of messages from peripheral tissues to the brain.
Best described as ‘warning messages’
- What is an example of negative reinforcement?
a behaviour is followed by the cessation of an unwanted experience.
- A female patient feels fine when she enters the dentist but when she hears the drill, she begins to feel anxious and her heart rate begins to rise, despite saying she trusts you will not hurt her. What psychological process is this an example of?
Classical conditioning
- What percentage of people who fear the dentist, say this is because of pain?
30% or 25%- i cant find the % in the notes ive had to convert some figures but still unsure which one
- What would be the best advice to give a parent of a young child at the dentist? – options to this weren’t really relevant to the adult which what is asked in the question they were more relevant to the child bit of a weird one
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