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| Behavior Modification or Behavior Therapy |
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| A therapeutic approach in which conditioning processes are used to change behavior. |
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| An assessment made by observing a person's overt behavior. |
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| The pairing of a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus. |
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| Conditioned or Conditional Stimulus (CS) |
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| A neutral stimulus that's paired with a US to become conditioned. |
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| Conditioned or Conditional Response (CR) |
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| A response to the CS that's acquired by classical conditioning. |
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| Programs in which reinforcement is increased for desired behaviors and withheld after undesired behaviors. |
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| A schedule in which reinforcement follows each instance of the behavior. |
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| A model that displays fear but ultimately handles it. |
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| The linking of an emotion to a stimulus that differsfrom the emotion the stimulus now causes. |
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| Responding in a different manner to different stimuli. |
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| A cue that controls the occurrence of behavior. |
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| Confidence of being able to do something successfully. |
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| Classical conditioning in which the CR is an emotional reaction. |
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| Treatments in which people stay focused on the distressing topic until well after their anxiety reaction dissipates. |
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| In classical conditioning, the reduction of a CR by repeating the CS without the US; in instrumental conditioning, the reduction of a behavioral tendency by removing reinforcement. |
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| Responding in a similar manner to somewhat different stimuli. |
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| The ordering of a person's potential responses by their likelihood. |
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| Higher-order Conditioning |
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| An event in which a former CS now acts as a USin a new instance of conditioning. |
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| Instrumental or Operant Conditioning |
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| Conditioning in which a behavior becomes more likely because it's followed by a desirable event or less likely because it's followed by an undesirable event. |
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| A model that displays no fear. |
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| The removal of an aversive stimulus. |
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| Acquiring the ability to do a new behavior by watching someone else do it. |
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| Conditioning in which a behavior becomes more likely because it's followed by a desirable event or less likely because it's followed by an undesirable event. |
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| A judgement about how likely a specific behavior is to attain a specific goal. |
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| A scheduly in which the behavior is reinforced less often than every time it occurs. |
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| Partial Reinforcement Effect |
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| The fact that a behavior acquired through partial reinforcement is resistant to extinction. |
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| The act of practicing a behavior that's hard for you while using the therapist as a model. |
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| An inappropriately intense fear of some specific class of stimuli. |
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| The measuring of physiological aspects of emotional reactions. |
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| A reinforcement involving the addition of a desired stimulus. |
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| An undesired event that makes the behavior that came before it less likely to occur again. |
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| An event in which a stimulus produces an automatic response. |
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| An event that makes the behavior that came before it more likely to occur again. |
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| The regulation and sometimes restraint of one's own activities. |
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| Confidence of being able to do something succussfully. |
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| The approval you give yourself for your own behavior. |
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| The absence or insufficiency of a needed behavior or skill. |
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| Praise, liking, acceptance, or approval received from someone else. |
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| Models in print, movies, TV, and so on. |
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| Systematic Desensitization |
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| A therapeutic procedure intended to extinguish fear. |
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| A punishment in which a child is temporarily removed from an enjoyable activity. |
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| Unconditioned or Unconditional Response (UR) |
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| A reflexive repsonse to an unconditioned stimulus. |
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| Unconditioned or Unconditional Stimulus (US) |
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| A stimulus that causes a reflexive (unconditioned) response. |
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| Vicarious Classical Conditioning |
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| Conditioning in which the unconditioned responce occurs via empathy. |
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| Vicarious Emotional Arousal |
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| The tendency to feel someone else's feelings along with him or her; also called empathy. |
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| An event in which a reinforcement experienced by someone else has a reinforcing effcet on your own behavior. |
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