PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ais People, Antipsychotic, Rat Man
11 Sep 2019
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Any theory-based, systematic treatment, conducted by a trained therapist, for helping people to overcome or cope with psychological problems that uses psychological means. Aims to restructure ways of feeling, thinking, or behaving. Typically focus on specific symptoms and problems. Ie: if someone is afraid of flying, the therapist will talk about the flying not about where this problem comes from or the underlying origins of it. Category of treatment methods that use basic principles of learning in order to weaken unwanted behavioral responses or strengthen desired behavioral responses. Symptom-oriented and concerned with immediate, measurable results. Believe that classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modelling can be used to change behaviours of schizophrenics, and treat anxiety disorders. Exposure to feared cs in the absence of the ucs while using response prevention to keep the operant avoidance response from occurring. Flooding: client exposed to real life stimuli. Implosion therapy: asked to imagine scenes involving stimuli.
