PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Aversion Therapy, Covert Conditioning, Moro Reflex
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Respondent behaviors are elicited by prior stimuli and are not effected by the consequences. Operant behaviors influence and are influenced by environmental consequences. Emotions can occur on a continuum from very mild to very strong. Conditioned seeing: when you close your eyes and imagine the flag, the words likely elicit activity in the visual part of your brain so that you experience the behavior of seeing the actual flag. Our verbal behavior is taught to us by others through operant conditioning. self-direct verbal behavior, or self-talk. The reason is that naturally distressed reactions from others teach us to keep certain thoughts to ourselves, or it requires less effort and can occur more rapidly than overt self-talk. Behavior techniques relying on imagery: covert sensitization, which is essentially a form of aversion therapy in which a troublesome reinforcer is paired repeatedly with an aversive stimulus.
