Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behavioral Activation, Operant Conditioning, Cognitive Distortion

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Operant (instrumental) focus on observable behavior, focuses on things we do, not thoughts and feelings. Any behavior we can do is due to conditioning. Voluntary response; do it by they want to do it/ don"t do it by they don"t want to. Inc in prob of behavior as a result of reinforcement and punishment. Automatic responses: the actions are not voluntary, they just do them. Classical conditioning in every day life emotional reponses: Avoidance of stimulus (negative reinforcement - operant conditioning) Images of fears stimuli with relaxation instead of trauma. Positive reinforcement: giving toy for doing something good. Negative punishment: taking away toy when they do something bad. Negative reinforcement: get a on test, don"t have to do assignment. Operant conditioning in everday life ** interpersonal relationship. Mary: negative reinforcement: less mad when she told him to play gold with his friend. Parents often fail to positively reinforce desired behaviors.

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