... half of all phobics could not remember a bad experience. Dunado discovered similar results in that he found that 50% of dog phobics had not had a traumatic experience with dogs. This research is flawed in many aspects because it does not explain why only some people develop phobias, it relies on memory, which could be unreliable, and it is unethical as there is unnecessary distress to humans and animals. Social learning is the next theory in the behavioral explanation and this says that modeling, which is behaviour been learnt by watching other people's reactions is the reason for developing the phobia. For example if a child sees its mother reacting in a fearful way towards a spider they too will react in that particular way. Evidence for this comes from Bandura who observed the reactions of fake electrical shocks been given with a buzzer. Maneeka found that when mothers ...

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