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Behaviour assessment

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An assessment made by observing a persons overt behaviour

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Behaviour modification or behaviour therapy

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A therapeutic approach in which conditioning processes are used to change behaviour

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Classical conditioning

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The pairing of a neutral stimulus with an unconditional stimulus

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Conditioned or conditional stimulus

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A neutral stimulus that is paired with a us to become conditioned

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Conditioned or conditional response

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A response to the cs that’s acquired by classical conditioning

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Contingency management

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Programs in which reinforcements is increased for desired behaviours and withheld after undesired behaviours

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Continuous reinforcement

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A schedule in which reinforcement follows each instance of behaviour

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Coping model

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A model that displays fear but ultimately handles it

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Counter conditioning

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The linking of an emotion to a stimulus that differs from the emotion of the stimulus now causes

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Discrimination

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Responding in a different manner to a different stimuli

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Discriminative stimulus

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The cue that controls the occurrence of behaviour

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Efficacy expectancy

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Confidence of beig able to do something successfully

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Emotional conditioning

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Classical conditioning in which the cr is an emotional reaction

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Exposure treatment

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Treatments in which people stay focused on the distressing topic until well after their anxiety reaction dissipates

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Extinction

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Classical conditioning , the reduction of a cr by repeating the cd without the us

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Generalization

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Responding in a similar manner to somewhat different stimuli

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Habit hierarchy

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Ordering of a persons potential responses by their likelihood

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High order conditioning

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An event in which a former cs now acts as a us in a new stance of conditioning

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Instrumental or operant conditioning

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Conditioning in which a behaviour comes more likely because it’s followed by a desirable event or less likely bc it’s followed by an undesirable event

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Mastery model

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Model that displays no fear

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Negative reinforcement

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Removal of an aversive stimulus

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Observable learning

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Acquiring the ability to do a new behaviour by watching someone else do it

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Outcome expectancy

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Judgement about how likely a specific behaviour is to attain a goal

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Partial reinforcement

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A schedule in which the behaviour is reinforced less often than every time it occurs

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Participant modelling

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The act of practicing a behaviour that’s hard for you while using the therapist as a model

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Phobia

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An in appropriately intense fear of some specific class of stimuli

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Physiological assessment

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The measuring of physiological aspect of emotional reactions

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Positive reinforcement

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A reinforcement involving the addition of a desired stimuli

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Punisher

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An undesired event that makes the behaviour that came before it less likely to occur again

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Reflex

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An event in which a stimulus produces an automatic response

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Reinforcer

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An event that makes the behaviour that came before it more likely to occur again

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Self control

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The regulation and sometimes restraint of ones own activities

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Self reinforcement

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The approval you give yourself for your own behaviour

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Skill deficit

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The absence or insufficiency of a a needed behaviour or skill

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Social reinforcement

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Praise liking acceptance or approval received from someone else

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Symbolic models

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Models in print tv

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Systematic desensitization

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A therapeutic procedure intended to extinguish fear

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Time out

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A punishment In which a child is temporarily removed from an enjoyable activity

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Unconditional response ur

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A reflexive response to an unconditioned stimulus

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UnconditionAl stimulus

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A stimulus that causes a reflexive response

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Vicarious classical conditioning

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Conditioning in which the unconditioned response occurs via empathy

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Vicarious emotional arousal

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The tendency to feel someone else’s feelings along with him or her also called empathy

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Vicarious reinforcement

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An event I which a reinforcement experienced by someone else has a reinforcing effect on your own behaviour