Vocabulary
Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors.
What is counterconditioning?
Exposing the client to feared/anxiety-provoking situations.
What is flooding?
Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors
What is behavior therapy?
A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol)
What is aversive conditioning?
Type of operant conditioning technique; client and therapist set behavioral goals and agree on reinforcement the client will get when they reach those goals.
What is behavior contracting?
Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking
What is Cognitive Therapy?
A feared response becomes non existent through being exposed to situation over and over again
What is extinction?
Type of operant conditioning technique; clients earn tokens for performing desired behaviors and exchange them for desired items/privileges.
What is token economy?
Widely practiced integrative therapy that combined cognitive therapy with behavior therapy
What is Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)?
Changing behavior by changing the reinforcement associated with the behavior; Example: behavior contracting, token economy
What is operant conditioning?
Turning faulty, disordered thoughts into more realistic ones.
What is cognitive restructuring?
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals
What is Group Therapy?
Looks at what the person thinks about 3 things: self, world, and future
What is cognitive triad?
The creator of rational-emotive behavior therapy (REBT)
Who is Albert Ellis?
Type of cognitive therapy used to treat depression; it helps people change negative beliefs into positive and realistic views.
What is Aaron Beck's therapy?