PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Emotional Reasoning, Personalization, Systematic Desensitization

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ingrid Johnsrude

Document Summary

Traditional forms of psychotherapy: psychoanalysis, humanist, gestalt, (these are still used to this day by some psychologists) Maladaptive behaviours: the problem we need to change this behaviour directly. Most techniques based on operant and classical conditioning: better understand why they are effective, operant conditioning: behaviour affected by consequences, classical conditioning: assosiation between stimulus and natural response transferred to another stimulus. Eat popcorn while watching sad movie, now popcorn can start subconsciously be related to sadness. Operant conditioning: reinforcement of adaptive behaviours, we can apply this by reinforcing healthy habits with people who have disorders, ex. Token economics (someone suffering from anorexia eats full meal at lunch receives a token as an award: modeling: imitate the successful behaviours of others (not really operant conditioning) Watches someone else take part in what they consider a scary situation and it allows them to imitate their behaviour: extinction of maladaptive behaviours: remove previously available positive reinforcers.