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Unit 13 Vocab Quiz 2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Behavior therapy | Therapy that applies learning principles to the elimination of unwanted behaviors |
| Counterconditioning | Behavior therapy procedures that use classical conditioning to evoke new responses to stimuli that are triggering unwanted behaviors; include exposure therapies and aversive conditioning |
| Exposure therapies | Behavioral techniques, such as systemic desensitization and virtual reality exposure therapy, that treat anxieties by exposing people (in imaginary or actual situations) to the things they fear and avoid |
| Systemic desensitization | A type of exposure therapy that associates a pleasant relaxed state with gradually increasing anxiety-triggering stimuli. Commonly used to treat phobias |
| Virtual reality exposure therapy | A counterconditioning technique that treats anxiety through creative electronic simulations in which people can safely face their greatest fears, such as airplane flying, spiders, or public speaking |
| Aversive conditioning | A type of counterconditioning that associates an unpleasant state (such as nausea) with an unwanted behavior (such as drinking alcohol) |
| Token economy | An operant conditioning procedure in which people earn a token for exhibiting a desired behavior and can later exchange tokens for privileges or treats |
| Cognitive therapy | Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking, based on the assumption that thoughts intervene between events and emotional reactions |
| Rational emotive behavioral therapy | A confrontational cognitive therapy, developed by Albert Ellis, tat vigorously challenges people's illogical, self-defeating attitudes and assumptions |
| Cognitive behavioral therapy | A popular integrative therapy that combines cognitive therapy (changing self-defeating thinking) with behavior therapy (changing behavior) |
| Group therapy | Therapy conducted with groups rather than individuals, providing benefits from group interaction |
| Family therapy | Therapy that treats people in the context of their family system. Views an individual's unwanted behaviors as influenced by, or directed at, other family members |
| Psychopharmacology | The study of the effects of drugs on mind and behaivor |
| Antipsychotic drug | Drugs used to treat schizophrenia and other forms of severe thought disorder |
| Antianxiety drugs | Drugs used to control anxiety and agitation |
| Antidepressant drugs | Drugs used to treat depression, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and posttraumatic stress disorder. (Several widely used antidepressant drugs are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) |
| Electroconvulsive therapy | A biomedical therapy for severely depressed patients in which a brief electric current is sent through the brain of an anesthetized patient |
| Psychosurery | Surgery that removes or destroys brain tissue in an effort to change behavior |
| Lobotomy | A psychosurgical procedure once used to calm uncontrollably emotional or violent patients. The procedure cut the nerves connecting the frontal lobes to the emotion-controlling centers of the inner brain |
| Resilience | The personal strength that helps most people cope with stress and recover from adversity and even trauma |
| Posttraumatic growth | Positive psychological changes as a result of struggling with extremely challenging circumstances and life crises |
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