Behavior Therapy Flashcards
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How does it work?
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- reinforcement and stimulus!
- reinforcement increased with social factors (expectancy, prestige, and demand)
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Attribution Theory
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changes that a person attributes to his or her own effort are more long-lasting than those attributed to external factors
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Types of Behavioral Interventions
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- positive reinforcement
- desensitization
- aversive procedures
- modeling
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Positive Reinforcement: Operant Conditioning
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- Skinner
- modify consequences of behavior
- phase contingent: different standards for different behaviors
- parental training programs: modify the dispensers of reinforcement
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Positive Reinforcement: Verbal Conditioning
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- reinforcement can influence verbal behavior
- psychotherapy
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Positive Reinforcement: Token Economies
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- tokens used so the subject doesn’t become satiated with direct reinforcers
- performance contracts can be used
- dont take away tokens or the value of the reinforcer isn’t as strong
- entitlement comes when tokens are given for no reason
- make punishment separate from tokens
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Desensitization: Reciprocal inhibition
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- If a response antagonistic to anxiety can be made to occur in the presence of anxiety-evoking stimuli so that it is accompanied by a complete or partial suppression of the anxiety responses, the bond between these stimuli and the anxiety response will be weakened
- Wolpe, 1958
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Systematic Desensitization
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- hierarchically-arranged anxiety-evoking events are paired with relaxation to eliminate the anxiety.
- using reciprocal inhibition
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Four stages of Desensitization
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- Relaxation training
- Construction of hierarchy
- Desensitization in Imagination
- In vivo (in life) desensitization
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Exposure with Response Prevention
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- based on classical extinction
- best way to treat fear and phobias!
- Client is exposed to anxiety-arousing stimuli for a prolonged period of time and is prohibited from making his/her usual avoidance or other anxiety-reducing response
- Davidson and Parker (2001) showed that “eye movements are unnecessary and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing- Elaine Shapiro) be viewed as an imaginal exposure technique.”
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Implosive Therapy (Flooding)
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- desensitization without a hierarchy
- only the most anxiety-producing items are used
- ethical?
- based on simple extinction theory (anxiety cant last forever)
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Aversive Procedures
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- Punishment- decreases the frequency of a behavior
- Escape or avoidance- reinforces an act, which ends a noxious stimulus
- Lang & Melamed (1969) gave shocks to a 6-month-old infant who was vomiting with no physiological cause. Vomiting stopped completely before the 6th session, and the child developed normally
- Learned helplessness- Martin Seligman and Steve Maier (1967)
- With an unconditioned response
- Dogs in two groups were given shocks. In group A, when the dog pressed a lever, the shock ended. In group B, the lever did nothing
- Later, group A learned to jump over a barrier to stop a shock. Group B dogs did not attempt to escape. They had “learned helplessness”
- Can’t use aversive things like this
- Cautela (1967) paired unwanted thoughts with imagined aversive stimuli (e.g. nausea) This covert sensitization was use for alcoholism and sexual paraphilias (with sexual things it does not work as well- there is a lot of relapse)
- Nausea-inducing drugs are effective for alcoholism, and stale cigarette smoke and rapid smoking are useful for smoking cessation
- Time out- positive reinforcers are blocked when an undesirable behavior occurs
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Modeling
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- Based on Bandura’s work
- Learning phenomena resulting from direct experiences can occur on a vicarious basis through observation of other persons’ behavior and its consequences
- Avoidance responses can be eliminated through the use of graduated modeling activities
