Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Perspectives Flashcards
Watson and Rayner’s experiment
Little Albert
learned fears can be removed = rabbit + food
Mary Cover Jones
the major theoretical underpinnings of the behavior therapy movement
Pavlovian conditioning
Wolpe’s experiment
reduction of fears in humans by having patients, while in a state of heightened relaxation, imagine the situations in which their fears occurred.
Skinner and his colleagues demonstrated that the behavior of hospitalized psychotic patients could be modified by [ ]
operant procedures
term used by Lazarus (1971) to refer to how Behavior therapists use a variety of specific techniques—not only for different patients but for the same patient at different points in the overall treatment process.
broad spectrum of treatment
functional analysis
- S: the stimulus or antecedent conditions that bring on the problematic behavior;
- O: the organismic variables (e.g., cognitive biases) that are related to the problematic behavior;
- R: the exact description of the problem
- C: the consequences of the problematic behavior.
describes a behavior therapy technique that is a refinement of a set of procedures
originally known as flooding or implosion.
exposure therapy
“one cannot
be relaxed and anxious simultaneously.”
reciprocal inhibition
- a technique to reduce anxiety.
- developed by Salter and Wolpe, it is based on reciprocal inhibition
- the idea is to teach patients to relax and then, while they are in the relaxed state, to
introduce a gradually increasing series of anxiety producing stimuli.
systematic desensitization
when is desensitization appropriate?
when patient has adequate coping potential but reacts to certain situations with
severe anxiety
when is desensitization inappropriate?
patient lacks certain skills and then becomes anxious in situations that require those skills
