Byproducts of Control
Emotional Byproducts of Control
Effects of Control Upon Operant Behavior
Psychotherapy as a Controlling Agency
Traditional Interpretations
100

Individual may run away from the controller or be “withdrawn”

Escape

100

Reflex responses first elicited by aversive stimuli used in punishment 

Fear

100

Provides a temporary escape from conditioned or unconditioned aversive stimuli 

Drug addiction

100

Behavior that is inconvenient or dangerous to self or others usually requires this

Treatment

100

Indication of something wrong somewhere else

Behavior
200

Counterattack the controlling agent 

Revolt

200

Excessive fear reactions to circumstances 

Phobia

200

Aimless wandering or searching evoked by a highly aversive condition

Nervouousness

200

Process of conducting interviews, gathering life histories, analyzing trains of thought, determining probabilities of response, and infering learning histories 

Diagnosis

200

Dedicated to maximizing mental health or personal adjustment

Psychotherapy

300

Type of resistance in which an individual simply does not conform with controlling practices 

Passive

300

Fear of a future event

Anxiety

300

Individual exposes themself to stimuli incompatible with depression or boredom

Thrill seeking

300

This person uses variables available through personal control or as a member of the ethical group

Therapist

300

Unhealthy or maladjusted behavior defined by its absence in health or adjustment, of which behavior is just a symptom

Neurosis

400

How the controlling agency usually does this with its practices to deal with byproducts 

Intensify

400

Heightened disposition to act aggressively toward the controlling agent

Anger or rage

400

Repeated punishment may produce an inhibited or shy person

Hysterical paralysis

400

The most common psychotherapy technique of the non punishing audience was based on his work

Sigmund Freud

400

External variables are manipulated

Functional therapy

500

Cannot control many emotional reactions 

Restraint

500

Emotional response associated with passive resistance

Depression

500

Ineffective or inaccurate discriminative responses

Defective stimulus control

500

This may occur if the therapist becomes critical or somehow threatens punishment

Resistance

500

Changing the external environment so that it is less likely to evoke a specific type of behavior

Reaction formation

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