Specific Behavioral Terms

Question 1

Aversion therapy

Answer 1

Any treatment aimed at reducing the attractiveness of a stimulus or a behavior by repeating pairing of it with an aversive stimulus. An example of this is treating alcoholism with Antabuse.

Question 2

Biofeedback

Answer 2

Behavior train in program that teaches a person how to control certain functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, temperature, and muscular tension. Biofeedback is often used for ADHD and Anxiety Disorders.

Question 3

Extinction

Answer 3

Withholding a reinforcer that normally follows a behavior. Behavior that fails to produce reinforcement will eventually cease.

Question 4

Flooding

Answer 4

A treatment procedure in which a clients anxiety is extinguished by prolonged real or imagined exposure to high intensity feared stimuli.

Question 5

In vivo desensitization

Answer 5

Pairing and movement through a hierarchy of anxiety, from least to most anxiety provoking situations; takes place in “real” setting.