Lecture 2 - Explaining BT & CT Flashcards
Who said “your largely constructed your depression. It wasn’t given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
When should we apply “Classical Conditioning”?
Understanding and treating Phobias
Eliminating problem behaviours
What is operant conditioning?
A type of learning where a behaviour is:
Strengthened if followed by reinforcement
or
diminished if followed by punishment.
What are the key factors of Phobic conditioning?
Observational Learning - the phobic individual watches the therapist—acting as a learning model—interact with the feared stimulus before the phobic individual is directly exposed to it.
Temperament -
Preparedness - A concept that explains the readily learning of certain associations between stimuli and responses.
History of control
What can be used to treat Phobia?
Counterconditioning - technique to replace bad or unpleasant emotional responses to a stimulus with more pleasant, adaptive responses.
Systematic desensitisation - the patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli and taught relaxation techniques.
Flooding - prolonged exposure to the feared stimulus.
What can we use to eliminate Problem Behaviours?
Counteracting aversion: Taste aversion
Chemotherapy example
What is the A-B-C model?
A - Antecedent
B - Behaviour
C - Consequences
The formula - Behaviour is maintained by specific Antecedents and Consequences of behaviour.
What is the main focus of Behavioural Analysis?
It focuses on HOW problems began not in WHY
Think in A-B-C
What is the premise of CT?
Abnormal behaviour is caused and maintained by abnormal thinking processes.
The thoughts or meaning that we give to an event
What is Rational-emotive-behaviour therapy?
Activating event - Belief -Consequence
Ellis added two more D - Disputing thoughts
and E - New effect
What are the 3 levels of Belief System?
Automatic thoughts
Intermediate thoughts
Core beliefs
