PSY 355 Week 2 DQs

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DQ 1: Please identify a type of fear (e.g., fear of heights, fear of snakes, fear of germs, and fear of flying) that you or someone you know possess. Then based on your selected fear, answer the following questions:

- How did this fear develop?

- Could this fear arise in some other way?

- Can such fears be explained through principles of classical conditioning? If so, how? If not, why not?

DQ 2: Do you think that innate factors have more of an influence on motivation than learned factors? Please post a response to this message.