Question

please...Im lost with this question (AP Psych)

1. Kaylee has a phobia. She is so afraid of spiders and insects that she avoids most outdoor activities and even refuses to go in the basement of her own house alone. Provide a reason for her behavior from each of the two perspectives:
Learning
Biological/evolutionary

2. Cecil is a college student who has OCD. Even though his apartment is spotless, he is extremely nervous because his girlfriend is visiting his home for the first time. He is now preoccupied with thoughts that the germs in his apartment will make his girlfriend sick. In order to reduce his anxiety, he is now counting his heartbeats aloud as he washes his hands. Provide a reason for his behavior from each of the three perspectives:
Learning
Biological/evolutionary
Psychoanalytical

Answer 1

For the first one you can use learning that Kaylee has research that some spiders are very venomous and can cause serious harm to other organisms so this contributed to her fear. For the biological/evolutionary approach you can say that through early(or earlier) human’s experiences, spiders have been proven to be dangerous and caused fear that has remained throughout all this time in order to help help us survive. I’m not sure about OCD. Sorry:/

Answer 2

Answer:

1. Learning
2. psychoanalytical

Explanation:

Kaylee has a phobia for spiders and other insects even though she has not had an experience with them according to the context of the question and because of this phobia she dislikes going for outdoor activities. the reason for her phobia is that she must have learnt from books or the experiences of other people that insects and spiders are dangerous to human hence the Learning perspective informs her character

Cecil a college student that is suffering from OCD is worried about his girlfriend getting infected by germs in his room even though his room is neat and in order tot get that thought off his mind he begins to count his heart beat . this kind of behavior is caused by the Psychoanalytical perspective ( the act of focusing on the unconscious mind rather than the conscious mind ) the unconscious mind here is his heartbeat.