Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Residential Treatment Center, Observational Learning, Aversion Therapy

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

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Psychology chapter 7b: classical conditioning (little albert) Ucs (loud noise) + cs (rat) ucr (fear) Cs (rat) without ucs (loud noise) ucr (fear) initially. Cs (rat) without cs (loud noise) no response eventually. Exposure based treatments: systematic desensitization: reducing anxiety through counter-conditioning, develop a fear hierarchy, relaxation training, gradually increase exposure to feared stimulus engaging in relaxation techniques. Expose the phobic patient to the feared stimulus (cs) without any ucs allowing extinction to occur o: flooding: reducing anxiety through extinction. Complete exposure to feared stimulus and eventually habituation occurs. Extinction- cs (spider) without negative consequences ucr (fear) initially. Maintain exposure over time- cs (spider) no response eventually: aversive conditioning- pairing an aversize (negative) stimulus with an undesired behaviour. Pairing an aversive (negative) stimulus with an undesired behaviour. In imagination pair rubber pants with something repulsive. Chemotherapy used to treat cancer patients causes nausea and vomiting after treatment. 20%-50% become nauseated and vomit minutes to hours before chemo.