Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning, Cognitive Therapy
27 Feb 2013
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Radical behaviourism only interested in behaviours or things they could objectively see or measure; observable behaviours. People learned behaviours through classical and operant conditioning. Now the two are more similar that different: ex: cognitive therapy and secure attachment theories meet more in the middle. Eliciting stimuli: bell comes first eliciting response. Behaviour comes first them reward or punishment follows. Reinforcing stimuli: ex: rat presses a lever and gets food. Conditioned stimulus (bell) and ucs (food) ---- ucr (salivation. Classical conditioning of fear: afraid when attacked so now dogs make them feel fear. Avoidance of stimulus (negative reinforcement operant conditioning: avoid dogs to avoid their fear response. Based on extinction: a client is afraid of dogs. Develop a hierarchy of fears (suds: subjective units of distress; rank of fears of how afraid they would be in certain situations when it comes to dogs. Imaginal exposure associate feared stimuli with relaxation instead of trauma.
