Behaviourism

Flowchart nodes

• Behaviourism

• background

• behaviourists think all is learned -so phobias and mental disorders are learned through environmental conditioning

• application

• if humans are conditioned to have a phobia then they can be conditioned to overcome them too

• 1. systematic desensitisation 2. flooding

• token economies

• - use the principles of operant conditioning to increase or reduce a target behaviour -tokens (secondary reinforcer) are given to participant when they display a target behaviour- which they can trade for something they want (primary reinforcer)

• 1. patient exposed to progressive anxiety provoking stimuli, taught relaxation techniques

• 2. patient exposed to direct max intensity anxiety producing stimuli, not taught relaxation techniques