Block1b Flashcards
what is repeated presentations of the same stimulus reduce responsiveness – often presented in hierarchical steps.
Response decreases with additional exposure.
Habituation
what is the repeated presentation of a the same stimulus increases responsiveness
sensitization
Which technique has fear that wears off vs. fear that gets worse?
Habituation
Sensitization
Achieves final target behavior by reinforcing successive approximations of the desired response.
shaping
Increasing doses of the fear provoking stimulus are paired with a relaxing stimulus to induce a relation response. Because one cannot simultaneously be fearful and relaxed, the person shows less anxiety when exposed to the fear-provoking stimulus in the future
Systematic Desensitization
Classical conditioning is used to pair a maladaptive but pleasurable stimulus with an aversive or painful stimulus (e.g., a shock) so that the two become associated. The person ultimately stops engaging in the maladaptive behavior, because it automatically provokes an unpleasant response.
Aversive Conditioning
The person is exposed to actual (flooding) or imagined (implosion) overwhelming dose of the feared stimulus. Through the process of habituation the person becomes accustomed to the stimulus and is no longer afraid.
Flooding and implosion
Through the process of operant conditioning the desired behavior (e.g. shaving) is reinforced by a reward or positive reinforcement (e.g., the token). The person increases the desirable behavior to gain the reward.
Token economy
The person is given ongoing physiologic information (e.g., blood pressure measurement) which acts as a reinforcement (blood pressure drops). The person uses this information along with relaxation techniques to control visceral changes (e.g., heart rate).
Biofeedback
What type of therapy is not about inner conflicts, focus is on what is observable and behavior patterns that require changing?
Behavior Therapies
Using a system of starting to expose the person to something which creates distress for that person by starting with limited exposure and building up to full exposure.
Systematic Desensitization
Removing reinforcement gradually without the patient being able to notice or discern the difference
What is that?
Fading
What type of therapy is focused on what is observable and behavior patterns that require changing?
Behavior Therapy
What type of learning uses classical and operant conditioning?
Associative Learning
Freud wanted patients to be able to react?
Abreaction was thought to induce?
Abreact
Catharsis