Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia)

Saavedra and Silverman (button phobia).

• Saavedra, L M and Silverman, W K (2002), Case study: disgust and a specific phobia of buttons. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 41(11): 1376-79 Saavedra and Silverman studied a child with button phobia. They investigated how classical conditioning can be used to treat a child's phobia by targeting disgust and fear responses. The case study research method was used with interviews, various scales and observations as techniques.
• The psychology being investigated includes: evaluative learning; operant conditioning; classical conditioning; phobias.
• For this study, candidates should understand the background, aims, procedure and methodology as appropriate (research method, sample and demographics, sampling technique, experimental design, controls, question types, data-collection technique, and measured and manipulated variables), ethical issues, quantitative and qualitative results and their representation and interpretation, conclusions, and strengths and weaknesses; describe and evaluate the methodology; and relate the study to psychological issues and debates.

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