PSY 337 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Stress Management, Scientific Method, Pain Management
16 Oct 2016
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Focus on directly observable behavior, current determinants of behavior, learning experiences that promote change, tailoring treatment strategies to individual clients, and rigorous assessment and evaluation. Have treated anxiety disorders, depression, ptsd, substance abuse, eating and weight disorders, sexual problems, pain management, and hypertension. Used in developmental disabilities, mental illness, education and special education, community psychology, clinical psychology, rehabilitation, business, self-management, sports psychology, health-related behaviors, medicine, and gerontology. Four major areas of development: classical conditioning. What happens prior to learning that creates a response through pairing: operant conditioning, Learning where behavior is influenced mainly by the consequences that follow them. Positive/ negative reinforcement, punishment and extinction techniques in applied setting can be instrument in developing behaviors: social-cognitive theory/ social learning approach. Interaction of environment, personal factors (beliefs, preferences, expectations, self-perceptions, and interpretations), and individual behavior. Environmental events on behavior are mainly determined by cognitive processes governing how environmental influences are perceived by an individual and how these events are interpreted.
