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Week 3: Cognitive-Behavioural Perspective Flashcards

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List the characteristics of the behavioural approach

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  • key role of learning and experience
  • behaviour is situation specific
  • minimal use of theoretical constructs
  • parsimonious explanations
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Key role of learning and experience

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Behaviour develops and changes primarily through learning and experience (accumulation of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning)

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Behaviour is situation specific

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Consistency of behaviour depends on the situation in which the behaviour is performed

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Minimal use of theoretical constructs

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Behavioural theories tend to use relatively few concepts and assumptions

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Parsimonious explanations

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Remembering and forgetting are explained by the same principle: the presence of appropriate stimuli

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List the prominent behaviourists and their theories

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  • Watson: radical behaviourism
  • Pavlov: classical conditioning
  • Skinner: operant conditioning
  • Bandura: social learning
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Pavlov

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Interested in the idea of innate personality variables. Viewed this as strong vs. weak cortical excitation and inhibition

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Watson

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Idea that individuals are more shaped by learning experiences than by inherited or innate temperament

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Operant conditioning and personality

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Quality of actions are reinforced

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What are three of Bandura’s social learning theories?

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  • observational learning
  • reciprocal determinism
  • self efficacy
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Explicit self reinforcement

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Treating yourself to something as a reward

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Implicit self reinforcement

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Personal feelings of approval or disapproval, often informed by a sociocultural framework

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How does observational learning work?

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  1. Observer exposed to the modelling cues
  2. Observer acquires modelling cues by paying attention and memorising them
  3. Observer uses modelling cues as a guide for action, which results in imitation or counter imitation
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Counter imitation

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Avoiding doing something that you have seen punished previously

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What were the main takeaways from the bobo doll study?

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  • Children who saw the doll attacked attacked the doll
  • more likely to attack if violence was rewarded
  • behaviour inhibited by punishment
  • behaviour did not generalise to hitting other children
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Live models

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Parents, siblings, teachers, friends

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Symbolic models

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Novels, comics, television, film, video games

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What is triadic reciprocal determinism?

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Three factors (behaviour, personal variables, and environment) can influence and be influenced by each other

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Perceived self efficacy

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The expectation that you are capable of learning or performing particular behaviours that will result in desirable outcomes

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What are the four sources of self efficacy information?

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  • Performance accomplishments
  • Vicarious experience
  • Verbal persuasion
  • Emotional arousal
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Summarise Julian Rotter

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  • contemporary of bandura
  • more explicitly cognitive focus
  • the way that cognitive processes mediate decision making and learning experiences
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What are four important constructs that Rotter came up with?
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  • psychological situation
  • reinforcement value
  • expectancy
  • behaviour potential
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Describe psychological situation

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The existing situation from each individual’s perspective

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Describe reinforcement value

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A person’s preference for a particular outcome or reinforcer

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Describe expectancy

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Expectations about the chances that a particular behaviour will result in a given reinforcer

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Describe behaviour potential

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The likelihood that a person will engage in a behaviour - are there any obstructions or drivers?

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What is locus of control?

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A person’s view of the source of his or her outcomes

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What is an internal locus of control?

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The belief that outcomes are the result of our own efforts and resources

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What is an external locus of control?

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The belief that outcomes are due to outside forces over which we have no control

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List the correlates of locus of control

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  • information seeking
  • achievement
  • dealing with others
  • physical health
  • psychological adjustment
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List Mischel's criteria, or cognitive person variables
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  • competencies
  • encoding strategies and personal constructs
  • expectancies
  • subjective values
  • self regulatory systems and plans
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What is meant by competencies

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Skills developed throughout life

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What is meant by encoding strategies and personal constructs

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Constructs such as schemas, attitudes, and worldview that shape experiences

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What is meant by expectancies

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Assumptions regarding how one event will lead to another event, how others will act in response to events, and how behaviours lead to outcomes

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What is meant by subjective values

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Values that shape outcomes that are sought

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What is meant by self regulatory systems and plans

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Setting goals and creating and modifying plans to move towards these goals

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What does schema theory suggest?

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People form mental schematics to organise knowledge and integrate meaning

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What is a self complexity?

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When aspects of the self are distinct, and each has it’s own place in self image

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What is an entity schema?

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A trait or ability is seen as an entity that they possess more or less of; is not changeable

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What is an incremental schema?

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A trait or ability is seen as something that can be grown or modified incrementally through training, experience, and effort

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Briefly describe the cognitive behavioural approach

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Situational thoughts and actions accumulate and through learning processes result in personality as personal continuity

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Describe a top down view of personality

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Focused on genes, traits and temperament

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Describe a bottom up view of personality

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Focussed on the nurture perspective, learning, experiences and growth

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Burrhus Skinner

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  • operant conditioning
  • behaviour is primarily determined by consequences
  • only the external environment influences behaviour
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What are qualities?

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General themes in behaviour

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List examples of qualities

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  • effort
  • creativity
  • concentration
  • attentiveness
  • speed
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List two criticisms of the operant approach

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  • overly simplistic view of personality and humans

- rigidly deterministic stance

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List three contributions of the operant approach

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  • many practical benefits
  • applicable to forensic and org psych
  • useful and effective intervention procedures in childhood psych and adult behavioural problems
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Performance accomplishments

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Wehn we perform competently at a task, our efficacy expectations are strengthened

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Vicarious experience

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By observing others succeeding at a task, we develop expectations that we might be able to also succeed

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Verbal persuasion

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Being told by others that we can succeed increases our efficacy expectations

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Emotional arousal

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People rely on their state of physiological arousal to judge their level of anxiety and efficacy

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Treatment and self efficacy

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  • therapeutic interventions that strengthen self efficacy are effective
  • effective treatment enhances clients expectations of efficacy
  • efficacy is necessary to generalise mastery to outside a therapeutic setting
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Social learning process

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The likelihood that a person will engage in a behaviour is determined by reinforcement value and expectancy

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What are the functions of a schema

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  • provides mental shortcut for setting expectations
  • easier encoding in memory
  • informs assumptions that fill in gaps
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What is a self schema

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The mental schematic everyone has of themselves

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High self complexity

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Associated with better functioning

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Low self complexity

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Self schemas where there are indistinct boundaries between difference aspects of self, which can lead to distress spilling over into different aspects, e.g. from work to home life

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Proximity to self

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We hold different qualities, roles, ambitions, loved ones etc close to who we are

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Dual process models

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Idea that we have two processing pathways - one deliberate and one intuitive

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Rational, conscious….

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Effortful, explicit, intelligence based

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Emotional, unconscious…

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Automatic, implicit, emotion based

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How could internal locus of control be maladaptive?

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Blaming themselves for everything even though there are always things we can’t control

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How could external locus of control be maladaptive?

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Can be maladaptive due to a lack of responsibility

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What is the purpose of cognitive person variables

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They are the 5 criteria that any adequate personality theory needs to address

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