C6. P3 Flashcards
What is Aversive counter conditioning
Excitement to fear, like in dogs. One bad experience can make someone go from excitement, to viewing it as scary
Who was John B. Watson?
“Father of behaviorism” Practiced classical conditioning in humans
What does the term black box refer to?
Unobservable internal events that link external input to the behavioral output
What stance did Watson take on observable vs inner workings?
Advocated for a psychology that was empirically focused on what was observable
Explain the little albert study.
Practiced classical conditioning on an infant by making a loud noise whenever the baby would play with a white rat. The baby started to generalize the other stimuli to other white animals and things.
What is reciprocal inhibition?
An individual can block one behavioral response to a stimulus if another response is engaged
What is counterconditioning?
A therapeutic treatment in which an individual is exposed to a stimulus that has been conditioned to cause anxiety while also engaging in behavior that causes positive feelings
What is systematic desensitization?
The individual creates a hierarchy of stimuli or events that provoke anxiety, rank these in terms of those that cause a small amount of anxiety to those that would cause high anxiety, and learns anxiety reducing techniques
What is flooding?
Exposing the person directly to the thing they are most afraid of and preventing the person from leaving the situation
What is response prevention in flooding?
Someone must resist the desire to leave a situation or something that makes then anxious
What did Margaret Floy theorize?
Theorized internal mental processes influence behavior in a manner that is not solely due to learning history
