Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Systematic Desensitization, Aversion Therapy, Disulfiram

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Atkinson

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Psychotherapy based on principles of classical or operant conditioning. There are: flooding, implosion, counter-conditioning, systematic desensitization, aversion therapy. The best one might be: systematic desensitization: wolpe (1958) Client imagines fearful situation; receives relaxation (for example, ask you to imagine a cartoon snake and tell the cue to relax) Client imagines even more fearful situation receives a cue. Client progresses to the actual experience of fearful situation receives a cue (in vivo desensitization). Aversion therapy: behaviour maintained because of reinforcement contingency: alcohol relaxes the body, staying in-house avoid fears, gambling produces a thrill. For example, the alcoholic is given antabuse: it is normal unless under the effect of. Wiens and menustir (1983): 1 year later abstinent, 3 years later abstinent. 20 dollar bill: jhi, red, red, 13, whitney houston died, mh370, terror attack, 52 years old us"s right, hurricane hits, mass shooting, ufm vnmdcwi, fbi . : fbiuwoctvklmndp: president, agency, refrigerator, carpet, motherfucker, sister, picture.