sequential stimulus configurations. They show that the learning converges under stable stimulus

sequences and further investigate how the asymptotic CR amptitude depends on CS and US

magnitude and timing the basis for the model is the view that the goal of classical conditioning

is to establishi a temporal gradient that represents the distance to the goal event.

Mower's two process theory of phobic aquistion and maintenance seemed to deal with

the inadquancies of the original contiguity- based classical conditioning model. This proposed

that the phobia is aquired in the same way as the original model but it is maintained by a process

of instrumental conditioning, in which the instrumental response, avoidance is negatively

reinforced by the cessation of anxiety, thus accounting for the phenomenon of incubation. Still

though, there remains a number of criticisms applicable to Mower's model and the original

classical conditioning model firstly, not everyone with phobia reports an aversive conditioning

experience that brought the phobia on. A second criticism concerns the issue of the lack of

stimulus beginning first with the least anxiety- provoking stimulus and moving then to the next

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