PSY 035 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Abreaction, Aversion Therapy, Reinforcement
17 Dec 2017
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Wolpe focuses on just anxiety as his drive for drive reduction. Habit: a reoccurring pattern of a response to a stimulus that has been learned. He believed a neurological link was established between this drive and a response. Believed certain behaviors are due to the autonomic nervous system (involuntary; nonconscious) Believed the central nervous system was (voluntary; conscious) Contiguity: had to occur at a nearness in time for an association to be made. Drive: a mediating series of electrical responses carried out by the neurons in the nervous system. Anything that reduces this firing up of the neurons becomes a stamped in behavior. Any response/behavior that reduces anxiety almost immediately becomes encoded in the brain. The behavior may, however, be maladaptive may lead to neurosis. 1st phase: put a cat in a steel cage, where the bottom of the cage was hooked up to a generator. When the generator was turned on, the floor was electrifying.
