PSYB45H3 Chapter 24: Chapter 24 txtbook notes
21 Apr 2011
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Its procedure is based on principles of operant & respondent conditioning. Examples: overcoming t risha"s fear of public speaking has fear of giving presentation & experienced anxiety when thinking about it & giving in the presentation thus; dropped courses that have public presentation as component. soon as she accomplish doing this w/ minimal anxiety , moved to give speech to. this goes on until empty classroom is filled w/ lot more friends & could give the speech w/ minimal anxiety. had a intense fear of spider to extreme will climb out of window to escape from spider due to anxiety. Important to have operational definition of the behaviour involved in this. ans arousal in anxiety works as establishing operation that increase probability that person will engage in escape or avoidance behaviour. respondent behaviour : cs is the presence of spider that elicits a cr of ans arousal (involves anxiety)
