Behavior Therapy: Classical Conditioning
True or False, behavior therapy expects problems to diminish when people get in touch with their feelings?
False (that’s humanistic therapy)
Voluntary behaviors are strongly influenced by their _____.
Consequences
True or false: Cognitive therapy for depression helps people discover and change their habitually negative patterns of thinking
True
True or False, CBT is a therapy that seeks to replace negative thinking with different ways of thinking, leading to a more positive approach?
True
What type of therapy views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members.
family therapy
In the exposure therapy experiment run by Mary Cover Jones, she attempted to replace Peter’s fear of rabbits with what?
The pleasurable, relaxed response associated with eating.
What is the system of receiving a token for appropriate behavior?
Token economy
A person comes to a general conclusion based on a single incident or a single piece of evidence
overgeneralization
CBT was found to be useful with what disorder in particular?
OCD
Alcohol Anonymous is what type of group?
Self help group
What does Aversive condition seek to do?
Change a positive response to a negative response towards something you should avoid.
What do therapists use to shape behavior when using Operant Conditioning?
Positive Reinforcers
What is a confrontational cognitive therapy that actively challenges irrational beliefs?
Rational-Emotive Behavior Therapy
An effective CBT program for emotional disorders trains people to replace their _____ thinking with _____ appraisals.
Catastrophizing, realistic
Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, permitting therapeutic benefits from group interaction.
Group therapy
When is virtual reality exposure therapy utilized?
Whenever the stimulus is unable to be recreated, due to cost, embarrassment, etc.
What is behavior modification?
Reinforcing desired behaviors, and withholding reinforcement for undesired behavior.
Who believes that our thinking influences our feeling and that the therapist’s role is to change a client's self-defeating thinking by training them to view themselves in more positive ways?
Aaron Beck
What does partaking in a different enjoyable activity, rather than giving in to the compulsive urges, do?
It shifts and engages other areas of the brain and thus “Unsticks the brain.”
True or False: Group therapy wastes time and money when compared with other forms of therapy
False
Which psychiatrist refined previous techniques into what is now known as exposure therapy?
Joseph Wolpe
What is one of the two critiques of operant conditioning?
“Are the behaviors durable?” or “Is it morally wrong to control the behavior of another?”
A theory that proposes that people susceptible to depression develop inaccurate/unhelpful core beliefs about themselves, others, and the world as a result of learning histories.
Aaron Beck’s theory of depression
What revealed the normal brain activity, proving the effectiveness of CBT?
PET Scans
A group of people who have similar problems who meet without a therapist or counselor
Self help group