PSY-1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Reinforcement, Exposure Hierarchy, Systematic Desensitization
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Belief system underlies way in which a person appraises the activating event. Consequences emotional and behavioural consequences of the appraisal. Disputing challenging an erroneous belief system. People are accustomed to viewing emotions (consequences) as being caused directly by activating events. Emotions are actually caused by belief system, which must be countered. Goal is to point out errors of thinking and logic that underlie emotional. Self-instructional training cognitive coping approach of giving adaptive self- disturbances and to reprogram client"s automatic negative thought patterns instructions to oneself at crucial phases of the coping process. Most direct way to reduce a phobia is through process of classical extinction of. Requires exposure to feared cs in absence of ucs while using response prevention (prevention of escape or avoidance responses during exposure so that extinction can occur) Client may be exposed to real-life stimuli (flooding) or may be asked to imagine scenes involving the stimuli (implosion)
