Exam 8: Behavioral Interventions

Give examples of overt and covert behaviors.

Systematic desensitization is a process whereby the client is trained to relax by a series of mild doses of a relaxant drug

The process by which individuals are conditioned to be afraid of an object that once attracted them is known as:

What is the difference between a token economy and a level system? When would you use one or the other?

A program that focuses on rewarding young people for academic achievement by giving them points that they can then exchange for tangible rewards is typically referred to as a:

What's the difference between positive/negative reinforcers and positive/negative punishers? When should each be used?

Choose the type of therapy most likely to make the following statement: "Freedom is an illusion; our actions are very much controlled by our envi?ronment."

Contingency contracting:

Which of the following is not a common myth about classical conditioning?

A weakness of behavioral approaches is that they tend to be particularly inappropriate for addicts and people involved in sex crimes

Operant conditioning was developed by which well-known scholar?

A behavioral technique that assumes that we are conditioned by environmental forces is:

What other technology could be used during treatment with correctional populations?

The primary element in the treatment of anxiety is:

When a behavioral therapist creates a situation for a client in which aversive elements are woven into a story involving a desired object, it is known as:

Behavior modification is the outgrowth of work carried out by psychologists trying to understand how animals acquire behavior

A negative reinforcer is the onset of an unpleasant stimulus

Reinforcers should outnumber punishers by a factor of 4 to 1

Using operant conditioning, practitioners have found that it is effective in:

Classical conditioning is not likely to have long-term effects if the client is not motivated to change his or her behavior