PSY BEH 155C Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Exposure Therapy, Tuning Fork, Social Learning Theory
31 Jul 2018
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3 - behavior therapy: strong scientific foundation = evidence of the psychological processes assumed by behavioral. Therapy techniques: therapy techniques are subjected to rigorous outcome research, behavior = objective, measurable, and observable. Lab research principles of learning behavior therapy. Learning: any lasting change in behavior that results from experience: experience = environmental stimuli; consequences. Learning can result in adaptive or maladaptive behavior: adaptive: constructive (skills, abilities), normal development, maladaptive: counterproductive, abnormal, harmful, disruptive. What are examples of adaptive and maladaptive behaviors: behavioral inertia: once you start doing a behavior, you will keep doing it unless acted upon. Learning of associations between stimuli: after conditioning, learn to do an old behavior (salivating) to a new stimuli (sound, mechanism of treatment. Little albert video: extinction: repeated sound of tuning fork without food eventual suppression of response, systematic desensitization. How might these processes produce maladaptive functioning: classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning.
