PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Therapeutic Relationship, Psy, Mary Cover Jones
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Major 4: gaba (glutamate and gamma aminobutyric acid): Glutamate: excitatory transmitter that turns on many neurons, leading to action; overactivity could lead to literally burn out sections of the nervous system. Associating relaxing thoughts when thinking of fear to reduce; slow exposure. First he gave bird pellet of food overtime it moves it head slightly toward a ping pong ball tossed in its direction; reward each step along the way to create whole picture. Fails to account for development over life span. Ubiquitous importance of classical and operation conditioning. 1st study saw women kick the clown so they modeled it later at home. 2nd study never saw the women kick the clown therefore they never had the idea to do it and never did it. Different people process the same information differently; how we interpret the grade we get on an assignment is based on assumptions/expectations. What we attend to and what it means to us depends on our.