PSYCH 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Therapeutic Community, Classical Conditioning, Reinforcement
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Systematic desensitization: individuals were gradually introduced to. Behavior therapy: array of therapy methods based on principles of objects/situations they feared so their fear could extinguish behavioural/cognitive science as well as principles of learning as applied to clinical problems. It considers specific behaviors rather than inferred conflict as legitimate targets for change. Reinforcement: in operant conditioning, consequences for behavior that strengthen it/increase its frequency. Positive reinforcement involves contingent delivery of desired consequence; negative reinforcement is contingent escape from aversive consequence. Unwanted behaviors may result from their reinforcement, or the failure to reinforce desired behaviors. Process of reinforcing successive approximations to a final. Behavioral model: explanation of human behavior, including dysfunction, based on principles of learning/adaptation derived from experimental psychology. Early, nonscientific approach to study of psychology involving systematic attempts to report thoughts/feelings that specific stimuli evoked. Community treatment orders (ctos: one involved in the justice system who needs certain types of treatment in order to be involved in the community.
