PSYC*2160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Learned Helplessness, Reinforcement, Classical Conditioning
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Exposure and response prevention (erp): a method of treating obsessive-compulsive behavior that involves prolonged exposure to anxiety-arousing events while not engaging in the compulsive behavior pattern that reduces the anxiety. Response cost: a form of negative punishment involving the removal of a specific reinforcer following the occurrence of a behavior. Intrinsic punishment: punishment that is an inherent aspect of the behavior being punished, that is, the behavior itself is punishing. Extrinsic punishment: punishment that is not an inherent aspect of the behavior being punished but that simply follows the behavior. Primary (or unconditioned) punisher: any event that is innately punishing. Secondary (or conditioned) punisher: an event that is punishing because it has been associated with some other punisher. Generalized (or generalized secondary) punisher: an event that has become punishing because it has in the past been associated with many other punishers.
