PSYC 4030 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Mary Cover Jones, Muscle Relaxant, Edward Thorndike
8 Sep 2018
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Historical precursors: pliny the elder, a 1st-century naturalist treated drinking problems using aversion therapy. In 1845, lewis and lauret"s treatment of a man with sexual thoughts. These procedures are similar to some present-day cb interventions: *these early findings of bt are significant because they have had no real influence on the development of contemporary bt. Therapy consisted of two basic procedures: 1. Peter watched other children happily playing with a rabbit: 2. Indirectly explore client"s past and unconscious as related to client"s problem. Identify and directly change present maintaining conditions of client"s problem. Formal beginings of contemporary behaviour therapy: formally began in the 1950s simultaneously in the us, canada, south africa, and great britain. In the 1930s, b. f. skinner began his investigation of operant conditioning with pigeons and rats: like pavlov, skinner speculated about the therapeutic uses of learning principles.
