Behavior Therapy (Wolpe)

Question 1

Types of Behavior Therapy

Answer 1

CBT, Flooding, Exposure, Token economies, Operant conditioning, Systematic desensitization, Classical conditioning, Aversion therapy, Rational Emotive Therapy
Rational Emotive Therapy - focuses on what people think

Question 2

Shaping - praising child each time for positive behavior - over time linked to more complex desirable behaviors

Question 3

Extinction - reinforcement withheld following behavior that was previously positively reinforced

Question 4

Caring Days question: what would I want partner to do to show he cares 1. positive 2. specific, 3. small, 4. not subject of recent conflict

Question 5

reciprocal inhibition

Answer 5

1. a technique in behavior therapy that aims to replace an undesired response (e.g., anxiety) with a desired one by counterconditioning. It relies on the gradual substitution of a response that is incompatible with the original one and is potent enough to neutralize the anxiety-evoking power of the stimulus.

Question 6

diversion technique

Answer 6

diverting child’s attention away from the perceived problem, and more importantly, it quieted the child without rewarding undesired behavior.

Question 7

behaviors measured in terms of frequency, time and duration (not intensity)

Question 8

Albert Ellis developed the ABCs of REBT. The ABCs stand for the Activating event, Beliefs about the activating event, and the Consequences.

Question 9

Social Exchange Theory (operant conditioning)

According to Social Exchange Theory (which is based on the principles of operant conditioning), exchanges occur in a sequence. First there is an initiation by one person (the head banging), followed by a response by another person (mom picks him up). There is then a reciprocation on the part of the initiator (stops head banging). This is an important concept when looking at behaviors in relationships, as identifying in which part of the sequence a behavior is occurring can be crucial in being able to change that behavior.

Question 10

Escape learning occurs when a person learns to perform a behavior because it terminates an aversive event (admitting she’s wrong to stop the beating); avoidant learning occurs when a person learns to avoid events or conditions associated with dreaded or aversive outcomes (not giving an opinion to avoid conflict).

Question 11

Learned helplessness occurs when a person learns that an aversive event is inescapable and therefore resigns oneself to passively accepting it. Operant conditioning occurs when the consequences of a behavior modifies that behavior in the future (operant conditioning is a component of avoidant learning).