PSYCH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Aversion Therapy, Systematic Desensitization, Classical Conditioning
4 Oct 2016
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Counterconditioning: a technique employed in which behavior incompatible with a habitual undesirable pattern is induced. Systematic desensitization: a treatment for phobias in which the patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety provoking stimuli and taught relaxation techniques. Classical conditioning: a learning process that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired; a response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone (pavlov dogs drooling) Operant conditioning: a type of learning in which the strength of a behavior is modified by the behavior"s consequences, such as reward or punishment and the behavior is controlled by antecedents called. Discriminative stimuli which come to signal those consequences (used rats to determine which lever to press for food) Aversion therapy: a type of behavior therapy designed to make a patient give up an undesirable habit by causing them to associate it with an unpleasant effect.
