PSY360 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Little Albert Experiment, Nocturnal Enuresis, Exposure Therapy
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Align most closely with rebt, looks very different from client centered. Assumes behavior is controlled by the environment. Focussed on creating things in the environment that increases or decreases a behavior. A neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response through repeated pairing with. If we take something that someones already doing and pair it with something in the environment, we can make it so this stimulus elicits this response. 1938: bell and pad treatment developed for bed-wetting. Still used for treatment of bed wetting. 1949: boulder conference gives rise to scientist-practitioner model. Changed the way education was structured in psychology. Expose yourself to your phobia to reveal that your fear response is unwarranted. Set up a hierarchy of fear (what makes you afraid) and go through that one by one until none of those elicit the phobia response. 1966: association for advancement of behavior therapy founded. Behavior is saying that they can create better experiments, better proof.
