Abnormal pt 13 Flashcards
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Behavior Therapy
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
- Uses both classical and operant conditioning
- Primary concern is to eliminate the disorder’s behavior, not find the cause of the disorder
Counterconditioning
- A behavior therapy technique that teaches us to associate new responses to places or things that have in the past triggered unwanted behaviors
- Uses classical conditioning
Systematic Desensitization
A type of counterconditioning that associate’s a pleasant, relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli
- Usually used to treat phobias
Systematic Desensitization Process
- Establish a hierarchy of the anxiety-triggering stimuli
- Learning relaxation methods (e.g. progressive relaxation)
- Slowly thinking through the hierarchy, working to relax whenever anxiety is felt
Virtual relative exposure
An anxiety treatment that progressively exposes people to simulations of their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking
Aversive conditioning
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
- The person is replacing a positive but harmful response with a negative response
Token Economy
An operant conditioning procedure that attempts to modify behavior by rewarding desired behaviors with some small item
- The tokens can be exchanged for various privileges or treats
- Form of secondary reinforcement
Cognitive Therapy
Therapy that teaches people, new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting
- Based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
An integrative therapy that combines changing self-defeating thinking with changing inappropriate behaviors
