Learning & Ethology: Behavior Therapies

Question 1

Flooding

Answer 1

The client experiences the conditioned stimuli until they don’t experience the unconditioned stimuli that originally elicit fear.

Question 2

Implosion

Answer 2

The client imagines the conditioned stimuli until they don’t experience the unconditioned stimuli that orginally elicit fear.

Question 3

Systematic Desensitization

Answer 3

The process where a hierarchy of anxiety-producing situation are coupled with the use of relaxation techniques.

Question 4

Counter-Conditioning

Answer 4

Conditioning an unwanted response to a stimuli with a wanted response to the given stimuli.

Question 5

Conditioned Aversion

Answer 5

A therapy model where an attractive stimulus is paired with an aversive unconditioned stimulus associated with punishment.

Question 6

Operant Conditioning Approaches

Answer 6

Contingency Management
Behavioral Contract
Time-Out
Token Economies
Premack Principle

Question 7

Contingency Management

Answer 7

A therapeutic approach to change a client’s behavior by altering the consequences of the behavior

Question 8

Behavioral Contract

Answer 8

A negotiated agreement between two parties that explicitly states the consequences of certain acts.

Question 9

Time-Out Procedure

Answer 9

Removing the client from the potentially reinforcing situation before he can receive reinforcement for the undesirable behavior.

Question 10

Token Economies

Answer 10

A system where a client earns tokens for desirable behavior and are taken away for various undesirable behaviors.

Question 11

Premack Principle

Answer 11

A more preferred activity can be used to reinforce a less preferred activity.