PrepJet – Interventions Based on Classical Conditioning | Behavioral Psychology and Therapy Techniques

PrepJet Interventions
Based on Classical
Conditioning

, Interventions based on classical conditioning decrease or eliminate an undesirable behavior usin
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g? extinction or counterconditioning. kr kr




Interventions that use classical extinction to alter a behavior include? kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr




exposure with response prevention, cue exposure therapy, implosive therapy, and eye m kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr kr




ovement desensitization and reprocessing kr kr kr




Exposure with response prevention uses classical extinction to?
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-is based on two assumptions which include?
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-first assumption is that anxiety-
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arousing stimuli that do not ordinarily elicit anxiety (e.g., elevators, crowds, white rats) become c
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onditioned stimuli and begin to elicit anxiety because, at some time in the past, they were paired
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with an unconditioned stimulus that naturally elicited anxiety.
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The second assumption is that the conditioned fear response never extinguishes because the per
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son avoids the conditioned stimulus in order to avoid experiencing fear.
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Example of conditioned fear response and person avoiding the conditioned stimulus to avoid exp
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a person who has a fear of elevators may have acquired this fear because he was in an elevator w
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hen there was an earthquake that automatically elicited a fear response. In this situation, the ele
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vator was the CS and the earthquake was the US and, as a result of the pairing of the CS and US a
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nd subsequent stimulus generalization, the person is now afraid of all elevators. In this situation,
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the person always takes the stairs instead of the elevator to avoid feeling fear, which deprives hi
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m of opportunities for extinguishing his conditioned fear response. When using exposure with re
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sponse prevention, the client is exposed to the feared (conditioned) stimulus while preventing th
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e client from making his/her usual avoidance response. As a result, the conditioned response is e
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xtinguished.

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Flooding involves? kr kr




Flooding can be effective when? - kr kr kr kr




sustained exposure to stimuli that elicit the most intense levels of anxiety during all exposure ses
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sions

-when treating agoraphobia kr kr




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