The Behavioural model of abnormality and treatments

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1. What are behavioural therapies based on?

  • Identification of what reinforces abnormal behaviours and an attempt to change them through conditioning
  • Identification of what reinforces normal behaviours and an attempt to change them through conditioning
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2. Where in real life application are operant conditioning therapies used?

  • Psychiatric hospitals, they remove the reinforcements of abnormal behaviours and give new reinforcemens for better behaviours
  • Psychiatric hospitals, they remove the reinforcements of normal behaviours and give new reinforcemens for abnormal behaviours

3. Which is an example of the new stimulus presented by itself producing a conditioned response?

  • Unconditioned stimulus(a loud noise) is presented repeatly at the same time as another stimulus (a rat) which triggers an unconditioned response (fear)
  • The rat presented by itself triggers a conditioned response (fear)
  • A certain stimulus (a loud noise) triggers a natural reflex (fear)

4. Which is an example of a conditioned stimulus triggering an unconditioned response?

  • A certain stimulus (a loud noise) triggers a natural reflex (fear)
  • Unconditioned stimulus(a loud noise) is presented repeatly at the same time as another stimulus (a rat) which triggers an unconditioned response (fear)
  • The rat presented by itself triggers a conditioned response (fear)

5. How are taste aversions created?

  • If you are ill after a certain food, it's taste becomes a conditioned stimulus producing a conditioned response of nausea
  • We experience anxiety around phobic stimuli and avoid them, this prevents anxiety and acts as negative reinforcement
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