Main Figures
Operant conditioning first was developed with the use of what species?
Events that maintain a behavior in some way, either by increasing or decreasing it.
What is consequence?
This approach to therapy had its origin in the 1900s?
What is behavioral therapy?
The person who is known as the Father of Behaviorism?
Who is John Watson?
What is the purpose of Operant Conditioning?
What is Behavior Change?
Method used to teach people how to cope with stress by achieving muscle and mental relaxation.
What is progressive muscle relaxation?
Who is responsible for developing theories related to operant conditioning?
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Technique to increase target behavior that involves the escape from or avoidance of aversive stimuli.
What is negative reinforcement?
Explored the power of imaginal exposure to fear stimulus and the gradual changing of the fear response through the use of relaxation techniques.
What is systematic desensitization?
Behavioral therapy challenged what main psychological approach to mental health in its day?
What is psychoanalytic theory?
An aversive way to control behavior in which the consequences of a certain behavior result in the decrease of that behavior.
What is punishment?
Goal is related to not only eliminating a response to a stimuli but introducing a new response.
What is the Respondent Approach?
What is contemporary behavioral therapy called today?
What is radical behavior therapy?
Who is known as the "Father of Behavior Therapy"?
Who is Joseph Wolpe?
Technique to increase target behavior that involves the addition of something of value to the individual.
What is positive reinforcement?
Used the idea of reward and punishment as the means for behavior change.
What is the Operant Approach?
What therapy was combined with behavioral therapy to create modern day CBT?
What is Cognitive therapy?