PSY-2700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Behavior Modification, Toilet Training, Abusive Power And Control
Document Summary
Bribery- paying a person to engage in an illegal or unethical action. Want to manipulate the environment for positive change. Behavioral techniques can be learned and misused by clients and others! Bad behaviors are sometimes replaced with bad behaviors. Behavioral interventions ignore the real cause of the problem. All the emphasis on counting and charting behaviors to time consuming and treats people like rats. Clients will hold you accountable for the changes you"re supposed to make. Use of rewards by behavior modifiers to change behavior is bribery. Behavior modification involves the use of drugs, psychosurgery, and electroconvulsive therapy. Behavior modification only changes symptoms it doesn"t get to underlying problems. Behavior modification can be applied to deal with simple problems, such as toilet training children or overcoming fear of heights, but it is not applicable for changing complex problems such as low self-esteem or depression. Behavior modifiers are cold and unfeeling and don"t develop empathy with their clients.
