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He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1904 in recognition of his work on the physiology of digestion.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
What is classical conditioning?
Something is added to reinforce a desired behavior.
What is Positive Reinforcement?
The goal of this therapeutic approach is to help "create a rich and meaningful life, while accepting the pain that inevitably goes with it."
What is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
This animal was living in the Soviet Union when it's owner suddenly started presenting meat powder and bell sounds together to form an association.
What is a Dog?
He is often called the "father" of behaviorism, despite there having been another "father" of behaviorism before him.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
This psychological theory dominated the field prior to the birth of behaviorism.
What is psychoanalysis?
This experiment provided evidence for observational learning, and led to the development of Social Learning Theory.
What is the Bobo Doll experiment?
Strong, long-term beliefs a person has that are at the root of how they understand themselves, others, and the world.
What are Core Beliefs?
This animal was placed in the box where it had to learn to activate levers or respond to light or sound stimuli for a reward.
What is a Rat/Pidgeon?
He famously said "People's beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities."
Who is Albert Bandura?
A type of exposure therapy that involves the gradual exposure to feared stimuli while promoting relaxation.
What is Systematic Desensitization?
An individual's belief in their own ability to successfully perform a specific task or achieve a particular goal.
What is Self-Efficacy?
The philosophical foundation of Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).
What is Stoicism?
This animal contributed to the formulation of the Law of Effect.
What is a Cat?
He enlisted in the South African army, where he was treating soldiers who were diagnosed with "war neurosis" (PTSD), and later "came up with a new form" of treatment for anxiety disorders.
Who is Joseph Wolpe?
This term is used to describe what happens when the conditioned stimulus is repeatedly presented alone, and the target behavior slowly decreases.
What is Extinction?
Behavior is strengthened if followed by a reinforcer or diminished if followed by a punisher.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and _______ make up the four modules of DBT.
What is Interpersonal Effectiveness?
This animal learned how to turn in a circle through successive approximations.
What is a Pidgeon?
He famously said "Psychology as the behaviorist views it is a purely objective experimental branch of natural science. Its theoretical goal is the prediction and control of behavior."
Who is John Watson?
How a behaviorist describes a neutral stimuli which has become a conditioned stimuli that creates a fear response
What is a Phobia?
Skinner's philosophical assumption that all behavior is a consequence of environmental histories of reinforcement.
What is Radical Behaviorism?
Biological dysfunction in emotion regulation, combined with an invalidating environment, creates pervasive emotional dysregulation.
What is the Biosocial Theory of DBT?
This animal was given mild electric shocks accompanied by specific sounds and visual stimuli; later, the images and sounds created a feeling of fear, just as Wolpe expected.
What is a Cat?