Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Systematic Desensitization, Aversion Therapy, Virtual Reality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

Mix something that makes you ill with a bad behavior to assist patient in unlearning bad behavior and associating specific bad behavior with becoming ill. Mixed results: often short term changes that extinguish over time. Fear starts to become associated with nothing harmful. Watson as a hardcore behaviorist describes influencing people to become anything he wants. Thorndike"s law of effect foundation of behaviourism. Level-pressing got rewarded and moves up in tendency to perform. You do things for personal adaptation to do things that benefit you. Behave same way with normal teacher in environment. Behave in a different way if the normal teacher was in the environment. Behave the same way without normal teach in environment but principal attends. Negative reinforcement increases behavior by avoidance or removal of aversive stimulus. Black slide examples of behavior and negative reinforcers. ***figuring it out from a random example will be on exam.