Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Aversion Therapy, Disulfiram, Systematic Desensitization
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Learned helplessness: no contingency between response and reinforcement, relation to depression. Behavior therapy: psychotherapy based on principles of classical or operant conditioning, problem is viewed as error or failure in learning, cure is to relearn. Patient is still in touch with reality: treatment. Fear viewed as a cr, so extinguish by repeated presentation. Patient is continuously presented with fearful object , until it no longer produces a response: counter conditioning. Replace cr of fear with a more pleasant response. Pair the feared object with the positive ucs- ucr. Gradually increase intensity of the feared object. Feared object now results in positive cr: systematic desensitization. Train client in muscle relaxation on cue. Client imagines fearful situation, receives relax cue. Client imagines ever worse situation, receive cue. Client progresses to actual experience of fearful situation, receives cue: aversion therapy. Alcoholic given antabuse so that drinking -> illness. Getting info out of memory: recall.