PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Explanatory Style, Cognitive Therapy, Intellectual Disability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Gary Capstick

Document Summary

Psychodynamic and humanistic therapies are both insight therapies. As one gains insight into what is causing the problem (unresolved unconscious tension, present conscious condition of self-worth), the problem is alleviated. Behaviour therapies are mostly focused on behaviours, not thoughts and feelings. Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviours. They have learned inappropriate, maladaptive behaviour or. They have no had the opportunity to learn appropriate behaviour. New associations between stimuli can be learned. Adaptive behaviours can be taught and reinforced. Creating association between two stimuli (e. g dogs and pain, social situations and negative judgement) Assume that negative emotional reactions are due to these associations. Can use counterconditioning to create new association (evoke new responses to stimulieg . Create association between and behaviour and a consequence. Assume that maladaptive behaviours were rewarded, or adaptive behaviour never rewarded. Rewarding adaptive behaviour and pushing or ignoring maladaptive behaviour (eg token economies)