Applications Flashcards
1
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problems with drug addiction
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- Hepatitis
- Poly drug
- Crime (Two thirds of prisoners)
2
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behavioural intervention
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- Drug addiction is an operant behaviour
- Goal is to determine biological and environmental variables which modify a drug reinforcing efficacy.
- Function = automatic
- Little control over reinforcers and punishers IRL
- Reinforce abstinence (proximal)
- Intervene private events and reduce poverty (distal)
3
Q
Anxiety
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- Subjective definition
- Internal factors due to learning history dictate response to external factors
4
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Experiential avoidance
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-Avoidance behaviors e.g. skipping a party because you are scared to meet new people, which removes anxiety but stops you meeting new people.
5
Q
Dimensions of anxiety
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- Physiological activity (heart rate)
- Cognitive activity (pessimistic)
- Behavioural activity (exhibited or inhibited)
- Secondary gain (sympathy)
6
Q
Functional intervention
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- Gradual and systematic exposure
- Accept anxious thoughts and emotions
- Relaxation
- Eliminate secondary gain
- Look for antecedents and consequences
7
Q
criminal profiling
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- Determine offender characteristics
- Hard to measure as it is covert
- Motive, skills, relationship to victim and familiarity to location
8
Q
Temporal contiguity
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-Consequence must be immediate to impact behavior
9
Q
intermittent reinforcement
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-occasionally get caught, sometimes get away making behaviour more persistent
