Behaviour Therapy Flashcards
Bandura
Albert Bandura (1925-)
Social modeling.
Social Cognitive Theory.
Lazarus
Arnold A. Lazarus (1932-)
South African
Behaviour Therapy Practitioners
Focus on directly observable Behaviour, current determinants of Behaviour, learning experiences that promote change, tailoring treatment strategies to individual clients, and rigorous assessment and evaluation.
Classical Conditioning
What happens prior to learning that creates a response through pairing.
Operant Conditioning
Involves a type of learning in which behaviors are influenced mainly by the consequences that follow them.
Social Learning Approach
(Social Cognitive Approach)
Developed by Albert Bandura.
Interactional, interdisciplinary, and multimodal.
Involves a triadic reciprocal interaction among the environment, personal factors, and individual Behaviour.
CBT
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
Represents the mainstream of contemporary behaviour therapy and is a popular theoretical orientation amoung psychologists.
Progressive muscle relaxation
Aimed at achieving muscle and mental relaxation.
Increasingly popular.
Systematic Desensitisation
Basic behavioral procedure developed by Joseph Wolpe, where clients imagine anxiety-arousing situations.
Exposure Therapies
Designed to treat fears and other negative emotional responses by introducing clients, under carefully controlled conditions, to the situations that contributed to such problems.
Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)
Form of exposure therapy that entails assessment and preparation, imaginable flooding, and cognitive restructuring in the treatment of individuals with traumatic memories.
Involves the use of rapid, rhythmic eye movements.
Skinner
B. F. Skinner (1904-1990)
Father of behavioral approach to psychology.
