PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Attitudinal approaches to modification of health behavior is most useful for. Cognitive behavior therapy (cbt) approaches to health habit modification predicting when people will be motivated to change behavior change the focus to the target behavior itself- conditions that elicit and maintain it and factors that reinforce it. Can be most effective approach to health habit modification. Techniques can deal with all aspects of problem: self observation/monitoring/reinforcement. Therapeutic plan can be tailored to each individuals problem e. g. one obesity regime may not be right for another person. Many cbt programs use this as first step to behavior change. Person must understand dimensions of target behavior before change begins. Assesses frequency of behavior and antecedents and consequences. Charting behavior: e. g. when and why it occurs and feeling learn to discriminate target behavior. Ivan pavlov: earliest principles of behavior change identified by researchers. Pairing of unconditioned reflex with a new stimulus, producing a conditioned.
