behavioral terms

Question 1

Biofeedback

Answer 1

behavior training program that teaches a person how to control certain functions such as heart rate, blood pressure etc. used for AD/HD and anxiety disorders

Question 2

extinction

Answer 2

withholding a reinforcer that usually follows a behavior.

Question 3

Flooding

Answer 3

a treatment procedure in which a client’s anxiety is extinguished by prolonged real or imagined exposure to high-intensity stimuli

Question 4

In Vivo desensitization

Answer 4

pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety, from least to most

Question 5

Rational Emotive Therapy (RET)

Answer 5

cognitively-oriented therapy, change client’s beliefs by argument and logic

Question 6

Shaping

Answer 6

method used to train new behavior by prompting and reinforcing successive approximations of the desired behavior

Question 7

systematic desensitization

Answer 7

anxiety producing stimulus is paired with a relaxation-producing response