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Learning Targets 71-1 Analyze how the basic assumption of behavior therapy differs from the assumptions of psychodynamic and humanistic therapies, and examine the techniques used in exposure Module 71 therapies and aversive conditioning. 71-2 Describe the main premise of therapy based on operant conditioning principles, and contrast the views of its proponents and critics. Behavior, 71-3 Discuss the goals and techniques of the Cognitive, cognitive therapies and of cognitive- and Group behavioral therapy. Therapies 71-4 Discuss the aims and benefits of group therapy and family therapy. How does behavior therapy differ from psychodynamic and humanistic therapy? The psychodynamic and humanistic therapies, the insight therapies, expect people’s problems to diminish as they gain insight into their unresolved and unconscious tensions and as people get in touch with their feelings. Rather than delving deeply below the surface looking for inner causes, behavior therapists assume that problem behaviors are the problems. If maladaptive symptoms are learned behaviors, why not apply learning principles to replace them with new, constructive behaviors? Analyzing cartoons How does the cartoon depict the differences between psychoanalytic and behavior therapy? How can maladaptive behaviors be learned? As Pavlov and others showed, we learn various behaviors and emotions through classical conditioning. If we’re attacked by a dog, we may thereafter have a conditioned involuntary fear response when other dogs approach. (Our fear generalizes, and all dogs become conditioned stimuli.) So, if phobias, anxiety and perhaps depression can be learned…. can they be unlearned? Label the components of the classically conditioned phobia. If we are attacked by a dog, we may thereafter have a conditioned fear response when other dogs approach. What is the UCS (US), UCR (UR), NS, CS and CR?
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