PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Operant Conditioning, Hot Sauce, Emotional Reasoning

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jill L Atkinson

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Week 6 lecture: the treatment of psychological disorders. Types of assessment (before treatment): direct observation, clinical interviews, questionnaires, cognitive/psychological tests, medical imaging (e. g. : fmri, eeg, *assess both before and after treatment, not always effective for every person therefore follow up to evaluate. History of treatment: early treatments methods, traditional forms of psychotherapy (more often used in past, but still components of toda(cid:455)"s t(cid:396)eat(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:895) Behavioural therapies: maladaptive behaviour is the problem; need to change this behaviour directly, teach to behave in more desirable ways, solve the problem, most techniques based on operant and classical conditioning. Operant conditioning: behaviour affected by consequences (can lead to increase/decrease of that behaviour), more likely/less likely to be repeated (use of reinforcement, i. e. : big bang: chocolate when penny does what sheldon wants) Reinforcement of adaptive behaviours (e. g. : token economies, for correct behaviour=rewarded) Imitate the successful behaviours of others (note: not really (cid:862)ope(cid:396)a(cid:374)t (cid:272)o(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)s(cid:863), (cid:271)ut te(cid:454)t(cid:271)ook puts it he(cid:396)e(cid:895)