Week 12 - Cognitive Behaviour Modification Flashcards
What is a public VS private event?
Private event: also called “covert behaviour”, all mental/cognitive events are private events
Public event: also called “overt behaviour”, behaviour observable by another person, can be verified by scientific methods
Can private events be “inferred” using science?
Reaction time tests, tests, questionnaires etc…
Inner world is “inferred” from external behaviour
What are the 3 types of behaviourism?
1) methodological/stimulus-response psychology
2) radical behaviourism
3) teleological/molar behaviourism
What is methodological behaviourism?
What did it evolve into?
Emerged early 1900’s
Based off a dualistic (mind and body) conception of reality
Distinguished between subjective/qualitative (inner and outer world)
Need experimental methods that were objective
S-R behaviourism
Evolved into cognitive psychology
What is radical behaviourism?
First described in the 1970’s by skinner
REJECTS dualism, based off pragmatism
No distinction between “outer” and “inner” world
Thoughts and feelings are private = more useful for behavioural change
Public and private are in the environment
Empathize the function of a behaviour
What is teleological (molar) behaviourism?
Early 1900’s
Created by Howard Rachlin and built off of the philosophy of Gilbert Ryle.
Similar to Radical behaviourism in its rejection of dualism and emphasis on function.
Does not make a public-private or a subjective-objective distinction.
Is a pragmatic view not metaphysical one.
What is traditionally viewed as mental events are just labels of behaviour extended through time
What is cognitive therapy (CT)?
Cognitive Therapy emerged in the late 1970s as a response to the clinical shortcomings of methodological behaviourisms-response psychology
Viewed thoughts, feelings, and other mental events as CASUAL
Mental events mediate the relation between the environment and behaviour (dualistic)
What is behavioural therapies (BT)?
Applied Behaviour Analysis Therapies
(i.e., what your textbook covers)
Behavioural Activation Therapy
Functional Analytic Psychotherapy
Integrative Behavioural Couples Therapy
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
True or false. CBT has been generally successful in the treatment of depression
True
How do you define “cognitive-behaviour”?
Involves self-talk or imaginal behaviour
Occurs PRIVATELY/COVERTLY
What is the problem with circular reasoning?
1) observed behaviour is given a LABEL
2) label is then used as the EXPLANATION for the behaviour
***LABEL IS SIMPLY A NAME, CANT BE THE CAUSE OF THE BEHAVIOUR
Give an example of a behavioural excess?
Give an example of a behavioural deficits?
Depression
Obsessions
Fears/phobias
Chronic worry
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Positive affirmations
High self-confidence statements
What are 2 functions of cognitive behaviour?
1) respondent functions (thought/image may work as a CS)
2) operant functions (thought/image can act as a CS, EO, reinforcer/punisher)
What are the two types of cognitive-behavioural modification?
1) cognitive restructuring (used to replace maladaptive, w/ adaptive ones)
2) cognitive coping (used to teach NEW cognitive-behaviours which in turn promote desirable behaviours)
What are the steps in cognitive restructuring?
- Identify the distressing thoughts
- from retrospective self-report or from self-monitoring at the time the behaviour occurs - Identify the situations where they occur (the antecedents) and the emotional response, mood, or behaviour that follows (the consequences) from self- report or self-monitoring
- Help the client replace distressing/distorted thoughts with functional thoughts
