PSY100Y5 Study Guide - Final Guide: Systematic Desensitization, Behaviour Therapy, Classical Conditioning
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Behavior therapy is different from insight therapy in that behavior therapists make no attempt to help clients achieve grand insights about themselves. Actually, behavior therapists may work with clients to attain some limited insights about how situational factors evoke troublesome behaviors. Behavior therapies involve the application of learning principles to direct efforts to change clients maladaptive behaviors. Behavior therapies are based on certain assumptions. First, it is assumed that behavior is a product of learning. Second, it is assumed that what has been learned can be unlearned. Behavior therapists attempt to change clients behavior by applying the principles of classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and observational learning. S(cid:455)ste(cid:373)ati(cid:272) dese(cid:374)sitizatio(cid:374) is a (cid:271)eha(cid:448)io(cid:396) the(cid:396)ap(cid:455) used to (cid:396)edu(cid:272)e pho(cid:271)i(cid:272) (cid:272)lie(cid:374)t"s a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455) responses through counter-conditioning. The treatment assumes that most anxiety responses are acquired through classical conditioning. The goal of systematic desensitization is to weaken the association between the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response of anxiety.
