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UT PSY 394U - Social Cognitive Views of Personality

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Course Psy 394u- Introduction to Cognitive Science

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Social Cognitive Views of PersonalityBehavior TherapyBehavior Therapy AssesmentBehavior Therapy ContingenciesSlide 5Slide 6Behavior Therapy TherapySlide 8Slide 9Slide 10Slide 11Slide 12Slide 13Slide 14Slide 15Slide 16Slide 17Slide 18Slide 19Slide 20Slide 21Slide 22Slide 23Slide 24Slide 25Behavior Therapy CriticismsSlide 27Slide 28Slide 29Slide 30Slide 31Behavior Therapy The Limitations of BTSlide 33Slide 34Slide 35Slide 36Slide 37Behavior TherapyCh. 12: Social Cognitive ConceptionsSlide 40Observational Learning4 Parts to Observational LearningSlide 43Slide 44Slide 45Slide 46CAPS “if…then…” ProfilesSlide 48Social Cognitive ProcessesSlide 50Slide 51Slide 52Slide 53Slide 54Slide 55Slide 56Slide 57Slide 58Slide 59Slide 60Slide 61Slide 62Slide 63Slide 64Slide 65Slide 66Slide 67Social Cognitive Views of PersonalityBehavior Therapy AssessmentContingenciesTherapyLimitationsBehavior Therapy AssesmentBehaviors are thought of as a sample, not symbolic of something elseDependent measure: Frequency of target behaviorsPlace: relevant locationBehavior Therapy ContingenciesContingencies:What is reinforcing the target behavior?Behavior Therapy ContingenciesPremack principle Identifies reinforcersWhat does the person do if they can chooseUsed for the reinforcer for therapyRelativity of reinforcersThe ordering establishes a hierarchy of reinforcersNothing is intrinsically reinforcingBehavior Therapy ContingenciesThe contingency is folded back into the processUltimately, The distinction between assessment and treatment is artificialBehavior Therapy TherapyA number of applications have been developed:Systematic DesensitizationAversion therapyExtinction of cravingsFlooding / Explosion therapyBehavior Therapy TherapySystematic DesensitizationBehavior Therapy TherapySystematic DesensitizationEstablish a hierarchy of phobic activitiesTrain a mutually exclusive responseUsually relaxationBehavior Therapy TherapySystematic DesensitizationTransference often starts with imaginative desensitizationIn vivo desensitization is more effective(foreshadowing SLT: the process works even better in conjunction with a model)Behavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyBehavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyAssociate the unwanted behavior with bad feelingsE.g.: treatment of alcoholism with antabuseProblem: It’s tough to keep the client taking antabuseBehavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyJoke:Behavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyJoke: how many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?Behavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyJoke: how many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer:Behavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyJoke: how many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer: only one, but the light bulb has to want to changeBehavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyJoke: how many therapists does it take to change a light bulb?Answer: only one, but the light bulb has to want to changeFor this reason, AT is very unpopular with both therapists and clientsBehavior Therapy TherapyAversion therapyFor this reason, AT is very unpopular with both therapists and clientsWhat do you think, would you guys ever use AT?Behavior Therapy TherapyExtinction of cravings associated with precipitating cuesBehavior Therapy TherapyExtinction of cravings associated with precipitating cuesSimilar to systematic desensitizationEstablish a hierarchy of cues that cause cravingsTeach them mutually exclusive response (relaxation)Behavior Therapy TherapyExtinction of cravings associated with precipitating cuesMove up the hierarchyAnecdote: Dr. Stote says this works with heroin, but not with methBehavior Therapy TherapyFlooding / Explosion therapyBehavior Therapy TherapyFlooding / Explosion therapySimilar to extinction in some waysEstablish a hierarchy of cuesLock the client in with the cuesThey will have an extreme sympathetic responseKeep them from escapingBehavior Therapy TherapyFlooding / Explosion therapyGuthrie’s Contiguity Theory:After a while the sympathetic response will diminishThen the stimuli becomes associated with lower arousal levelsBehavior Therapy TherapyFlooding / Explosion therapyMove them up the hierarchySupposedly this therapy works very fast(This sounds horrific; please don’t ever do this to me)Behavior Therapy CriticismsCriticisms:Behavior Therapy CriticismsCriticisms:Symptom SubstitutionNot real personality changeBehavior Therapy CriticismsSymptom SubstitutionThe traditional Freudian responseIs this just treating the symptoms, but not the causes?If so, another symptom will just crop up elsewhereBehavior Therapy CriticismsSymptom SubstitutionThere is no evidence for thisTreatment outcomes must be compared to controlsSometimes clients develop other neuroses, but at the same rate as controlsBehavior Therapy CriticismsAnother criticism: personality changeDo these therapies actually change personality, or just surface behaviors?It depends on the definition of personality, butBehavior Therapy CriticismsAnother criticism: personality changeBy any reasonable definition, YESThe client’s habitual behaviors change (the cause of their complaint)The client’s self concept changesBehavior Therapy The Limitations of BTThe Limitations of BT:The problem needs to be only behaviorBehavior Therapy The Limitations of BTThe problem needs to be only behaviorIf the problem were distorted cognitions, the traditional BT has nothing to work withE.g.: what if excessive perfectionism drives someone into depressionBehavior Therapy The Limitations of BTThe problem needs to be only behaviorDo you think there are any problems that are truly only behavioral, with no cognitive component?Behavior Therapy The Limitations of BTThe problem needs to be only behaviorDo you think there are any problems that are truly only behavioral, with no cognitive component?E.g. what did you make of the fact, noted earlier, that Systematic Desensitization works better with a model?Behavior Therapy The Limitations of BTThe problem needs to be only behaviorOne possible rejoinder to this limitation: Reinforce them to engage in more activities that they find joyousBehavior Therapy The

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