PSY343H1 Lecture Notes - Emotional Dysregulation, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Contingency Management
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& maintained w/ same principles as normal behavior. Assessment continuous, focuses on current determinants of behavior. Research evaluates effects of specific techniques on specific problems. Outcome initial induction of behavior change, its generalization to real-life settings, & its maintenance over time. 3 c"s of behavior therapy: counterconditioning, contingency mgmt, c-b modification. * most therapists work with techniques from all 3 viewpoints. Conditioned fear of buzzer (paired w/ shock) wouldn"t eat w. buzzer on. Thought maybe he could use eating to inhibit anxiety fed cats in cages increasingly similar to the cage where the shocks originally happened extinguished anxiety. Use of deep relaxation or sexual arousal to inhibit anxiety, assertive responses to inhibit social anxiety. Anxiety causes most behavior disorders (pattern of responses from sympathetic nervous system. Conditioned to fear omnipresent stimuli, like your body. Anxiety can lead to secondary symptoms like disturbed sleep, impaired memory, tremors, gastrointestinal stuff. And then these can elicit anxiety as well!
