Summarisation- Behaviourist approach Flashcards

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Effectiveness

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  • Capafons
  • demonstrates positively effectiveness of SD
  • fear of flying
  • fewer psychological signs of fear in flight simulator
  • after 12-15 week treatment period
  • vivo + vitro used
  • STRENGTH
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Side effects

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  • Non invasive therapy
  • No physical side effects
  • No risk of addiction, changes in personality
  • STRENGTH
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Cause or symptom?

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  • Removed symptoms
  • Not treated ‘root’
  • Symptom substitution
  • decreases effectiveness
  • WEAKNESS
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Appropriateness

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  • Works better for some phobias
  • Less effective- general phobias
  • Not effective with ‘ancient fears’
  • Less likely to fear modern day
  • Reduces effectiveness
  • Limited
  • WEAKNESS
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Patient involvement

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  • Low level of patient involvement
  • Not require homework
  • Unlike REBT
  • Amount of sessions= Type of phobia, How well patient responds
  • Not required - vast amount of time, effort outside
  • STRENGTH
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ETHICAL ISSUES

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Anxiety controlled+
Informed consent+
Failure to protect participants from harm-

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Anxiety controlled

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  • More ethical than flooding
  • Client contentment is central to therapy
    ++++++
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Informed consent

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  • Able to provide full informed consent
  • Unlike schizophrenia
  • Take part= own free will
  • Can leave at any point
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However… (ethical sd)

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  • situation causes fear + anxiety
  • some argue element of failure to protect participants from
    harm
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Behaviour learned through conditioning (RELATIONSHIPS)

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  • Reinforcement models of attraction
  • more likely= form relationships with ppl who reinforce us
  • Byrne developed reinforcement Affect model
  • we like animals/ppl who are there when we are reinforced
  • Seek relationships with rewarding stimuli
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Operant (RELATIONSHIPS)

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  • Rewarding animal for good behaviour
  • Positive experience= rewarding interaction
  • Owner happy= animal happy
  • Increasing time spent
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Classical (RELATIONSHIPS)

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  • Owning pet brings person happy feelings
  • Per associated with feeling happy
  • Pet owners= less likely suffer depression
  • Lower blood pressure than non pet owners
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N (1)

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Cause for normal behaviour
- Underlying cause of normal bhvr through learning
- Classical= associations
- Operant= reinforcement

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A(2)

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Cause of abnormal behaviour
- Result faulty learning
- Classically conditioned= associate fear-flying
- person avoids trigger
- feel better
- actually process of reinforcement
-confronted with trigger again=phobic response heightened

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A(3)

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Aim of therapy (based on belief about cause of abnormal behaviour)
- Objective of SD=relearn more functional response instead of stimulus

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N(4)

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Procedure of therapy to re-establish normal behaviour again
- Gradually+systematically breaks down down faulty association
- Replace with more functional response
- ^counter conditioning
- Client progresses through desensitisation hierarchy
- SD based on conditioning
- psychologist from behaviourist= consider appropriate

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Procedure session 1

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  • Returned to lab
  • presented with white rat
  • Albert reached
  • Bar struck behind head
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Procedure session 2

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  • Shown rat (no sound)
  • After exposed 5 times with ‘joint stimulation’
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Procedure session 3

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  • Testing generalisation
  • presented with rat, wooden blocks, rabbit, dog, seal fur coat
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Procedure session 4

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  • New environment
  • Large well lit lecture room
  • 4 people
  • Placed on table in centre
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Procedure session 5

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  • Last time
  • Presented with santa mask, fur coat, rabbit, dog, blocks
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Findings session 1

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  • Bar struck= Albert jumped & fell forward, burying head, no cry
  • Second time struck= Fell forward whimpering
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Findings session 2

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  • Stared at rat, did not reach
    -Rat brought closer, reached but withdrew hand when rat started to nuzzle hand
  • Blocks played with happily
  • Cautious response just for rat
  • After further joint stimulation, Albert= distressed, trying to crawl away
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Findings session 3

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  • Blocks fine
  • Rat fear
  • rabbit as extreme as rat
  • played with cotton wool in package, not touching cotton at first
  • Watson hair= no fear response
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Findings session 4
- Responses less extreme - more joint stimulation= rat fear stronger - rat fear different to playing with blocks - furry objects= distress/whimper
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Findings session 5
- blocks remained happy - furry objects= fear - not so extreme over time but would avoid, at times cry
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This study demonstrates
just how easy it is to create fear response
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Conclusion to wayne and rayner
- First week= two joint stimulation needed to create sufficient conditioned emotional response, seven to create complete fear reaction - Study showed how easy fears generalise - Persistence of early conditioned responses will be found in people ‘constitutionally inferior’
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Controlled study
- Environment= able to control for extraneous variables - a baseline condition= ‘pre-manipulation’ bhvr judged to establish if fearful child before study - blocks showed fear exclusively for furry - films used so others could confirm - STRENGTH
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The sample (evaluation of methodology & procedures)
- intended repeat with more - personal reasons, watson and rayner asked to leave uni - emotional stable child - if research continued, would fear intensify? - No comparisons, WEAKNESS
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Could phobias have a biological cause?
- Learning cannot account for all phobias - Phobias could be result of biological preparedness - Seligman - ANCIENT FEARS - WEAKNESS
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Ethical issues (W&R)
Creating a fear More psychological harm Lasting effects
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Creating a fear
- Albert experiencing anxiety as result of experiment - Delayed tests for week - Question should they have continued - Psychologists avoid creating situation where more stress in study than everyday life - Researchers justified arguing Albert would’ve exposed to such stressors IRL + Hospital environment protected him
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More psychological harm
- Induced fear in young child - Guilty of intensifying stres - Removed thumb from mouth
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Lasting effects
- Intention to remove learner conditioned behaviour - Sudden removal from hospital= not achieved - Continue fear - Researchers had duty unconditioning
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Social implications
Vunerable children In education Naughty step
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Vulnerable children
- Autism benefit from conditioning techniques - Helping integrate into society - Can participate in societty fully - Robinson token economies improved performance reading+ vocabulary related tasks in children with hyperactivity issues - Howveer only treats symptoms - Undesirable behaviour could return when reinforcement stops
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In education
- Montessori education - Conditioning of bhvr interfere with child internal drive to learn - Levitt -Chicago school offered money - Money=If improved=Modest gains in performance - School leavers-=better educated - Gneezy - Money used elsewhere
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Naughty step
- Shouting= positively inforcing - Morris claim long term emotional effects - Children can’t reflect on emotions or behaviour and verbalise feelings once on naughty step - To be impactful, needs to be implemented consistently - Busy life