Chapter 25: Cognitive Behavior Modification

Question 1

Behavior modification is often focused on analyzing and modifying ____ behaviors over ____ behaviors

Answer 1

Covert, Overt

Question 2

Cognitive Behavior Modification

Answer 2

Used to help people change behaviors that are labeled as cognitive

Question 3

Can cognitive behaviors be observed directly?

Answer 3

No because they are covert

Question 4

Cognitive Behaviors

Answer 4

Verbal or imaginal responses made by the person that are covert and thus not observable to others

• Self talk or imaginal behavior
• occurs covertly
• called “private events”
• Identifies SPECIFIC BEHAVIORS not just labels
• -Ex: “i can’t do anything right”(cog. behavior) vs Low-self-esteem (verbal label)

Question 5

What can cognitive behaviors function as

Answer 5

• Conditioned stimulus that elicits an unpleasant conditioned response
• Discriminative stimuli for desirable behaviors
• Motivating Operations that influence the power of consequences to function as reinforcer or punishers
• Reinforcing or punishing consequences when they follow some other behavior

Question 6

Cognitive Restructuring

Answer 6

Designed to replace specific maladaptive cognitive behaviors with more adaptive ones

Question 7

Cognitive coping skills training

Answer 7

Designed to teach new cognitive behaviors that are then used to promote other desirable behaviors

Question 8

Steps for Cognitive Restructuring

Answer 8

1. Identify distressing thoughts and situations
2. Identify emotional response or behavior that follows the thoughts
3. Work to decrease distressing thoughts and replace them with more rational or desirable thinking

Question 9

Behavioral activation treatment

Answer 9

Therapist gets the client to commit to engage in a number of different reinforcing activities each week

Question 10

Cognitive Distortions

Answer 10

Negative evaluations or interpretations of life events or logical errors in thinking that lead to negative mood or depressed behavior

Question 11

Self Instructional Training Steps:

Answer 11

1. Identify the problem situation, define the desirable behavior to be increased, and identify competing behaviors
2. Identify the self-instructions to be used in the problem situation
3. Use behavioral skills training to teach the self-instructions

Question 12

Acceptance based therapies

Answer 12

Acceptance-commitment therapy: accept their negative thoughts instead of trying to change them and then commit to do better

Question 13

Albert Ellis

Answer 13

Questioned how logical or rational the clients thoughts or belief’s are

Question 14

Beck used series of 3 questions. What are they?

Answer 14

1. Where is the evidence
2. Are there alternative explanations
3. What are the implications

Question 15

What are the Thought Stopping Steps?

Answer 15

1. identify intrusive thoughts
2. Interrupt ongoing thoughts
3. Replace intrusive thoughts with more acceptable thoughts

Question 16

Cognitive Behavioral Excess

Answer 16

• Depression
• Obsessions/cognitive ruminations
• Fears/phobia
• Worry

Question 17

Cognitive Behavioral Deficit

Answer 17

Impulsitivity

• Poor decision making
• Poor problem solving

Question 18

What are the problems of circular reasoning

Answer 18

• the observed behavior is given a label
• the label is then used as the explanation for the behavior
• • (label is a name and cannot be the cause of a behavior)

Question 19

Beck’s cognitive therapy for depression

Answer 19

• focus on activity, mood, and cognitive behavior
• conducted by a therapist trained in the procedure
• time limited (ex: 10 sessions
• Applied to other problems as well as depression

Question 20

Stress Inoculation Training

Answer 20

Expose the client to stressors and practice cognitive and behavioral alternative responses

• identify self-statements that contribute to stress/anxiety
• Generate new coping self-statements to be used in 4 phases
• Rehearse coping self-statements in role-plays of the difficult situation
• Practice in progressively more stressful situations in the natural environment