HLSC 2P49 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Stimulus Control, Weight Loss, Disulfiram

• School: Brock University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HLSC 2P49
• Professor: Tony Bogaert

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Theories: health belief model (hbm), self-efficacy, theory of planned behaviour (tpb), transtheoretical model, social engineering. They all use learning principles to understand and change health behaviour. Application of learning theory (cognitive-behavioural approach) is diverse. All stress how we learn health behaviours. Can unlearn unhealthy behaviours and replace them with healthy behaviour (optimistic approach) Ucs (unconditioned stimulus): causes a response without any learning: common ucs: food saliva, object gets close to you duck, smile happy, frown anxiety, genital touching arousal, bad smell revulsion. In classical condition, you pair new stimuli with ucs, and stimuli will take on ucs properties. Often emotional responses are learned through classical conditioning (emotion-evoking properties of ucs transferred to other stimuli) Dental fear/pain: before learning: ucs (needle, drill mouth) ucr (pain, anxiety, dentist office/dentist: cs ucs (drill, injection) ucr (anxiety, after learning/conditioning: cs (dentist office/dentist) cr (similar to ucr anxiety) If (cid:455)ou"(cid:448)e had a (cid:271)ad/si(cid:272)k e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)(cid:272)e, the(cid:374) s(cid:373)ell/taste al(cid:272)ohol u(cid:374)pleasa(cid:374)t.