PSYC 4176 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Allied Health Professions, Observational Learning, Operational Definition
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Techniques and terms: cognitive processes: how people perceive and interpret experiences big problem for people with autism and people who suffer from depression, cognitive deficiencies: extremely disorganized lack of thinking, impulsive actions, lack of planning and forethought. Adhd: cognitive- behavioral perspective: treatment based on a theoretical perspective considering behavioral events, cognitive processes, and their interactions, classical conditions: also called pavlovian conditions. Us: food, cs: bell, ur: salivate, cr: salivate. Salivating becomes a conditioned response to the bell after repeated pairings. Joseph wople: systematic desensitization something you are afraid of, paired with relaxation exercises if (cid:455)ou get so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e rela(cid:454)ed, (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e relaxed and anxious at the same time. As soon as the person becomes anxious, you start the hierarchy again: operant conditioning. Discrimination: where a stimulus comes to signal a certain response. Rat presses bar and food pellet goes into the food tray. Extinction: learned response is weakened when reinforcers that traditionally follow a response is removed.
