PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Mary Cover Jones, Systematic Desensitization, Family Therapy

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Therapies (chapter 15) - part 2: behaviour therapies, introduction. Assumptions: rooted in maladaptive learning, emotions are learned. Aims: replace the maladaptive with adaptive and healthy emotions, teach - use principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning: classical conditioning techniques. Counterconditioning: reverse the earlier conditioning - pair the trigger stimulus with a new response incompatible with fear or anxiety. Mary cover jones - rst behavioural therapist. 3 year old peter, terri ed of anything white and uffy, so jones counter conditioned him. She brought a rabbit everyday for 2 months and every day put the rabbit closer to him. Peter had to be in a good environment when this was occurring though. Practice imagining what makes you anxious until you can think about it without being anxious. Replace a positive response to a harmful stimulus, such as alcohol or cigarettes with a negative or aversive response.