Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Behaviour Therapy, Anxiety Disorder, Long-Term Memory

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

Document Summary

Behavior therapy: psychotherapy based on principles of classical or operant conditioning, problem is viewed as an error or failure in learning, cure is to relearn. Note: over 200 recognized phobias, some phobias are easier to deal with fear of animals don"t go to the zoo, but we can generalize these. Treatment: exposure, flooding: patient is continuously presented with fearful object, until it is no longer causes fear. Limited value: patient must be willing to expose themselves to the fearful object: implosion: patient must continuously imagine fearful situation (think about being. Not always possible with snakes: counter conditioning: replace cr of fear with a more pleasant response. Pair the feared object with low intensity level with the positive ucs ucr. Gradually increase the intensity of the feared object. Feared object now results in a positive cr: systematic desensitization. Train client to muscle relaxation on cue. Client imagines fearful situation; receives relaxation cue. Client imagines even more fearful situation; receives cue.