PSY 453 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Habituation, Systematic Desensitization, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
30 Jul 2020
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Behavior was understood as mediated mainly by the association between stimuli and the consequences of the responses given to them. The therapies that appeared at this time are therefore based on conditioning , working on aspects such as the association of stimuli, habituation or. 1 sensitization to them or the extinction of reactions to stimuli. First order changes in behavior are caused, working on directly observable behavior. Some of the treatments belonging to this first generation of behavioral therapies that are still applied are exposure therapies, differential behavioral reinforcement, aversive techniques, shaping, systematic desensitization or the economy of tokens and the behavioral contract (if. Nowadays they are applied accompanied by more cognitive treatments). The proposals from the first wave of behavioral therapies were used and continue to be used to treat phobias , create or restore behavioral patterns, and / or train people with reduced abilities.
