Conditioning

Explanation for child's anxiety from operant conditioning model? Child anxious about getting on the bus and irrationally fears it will crash.

"HOW DO YOUR PARENTS RESPOND WHEN YOU ARE AFRAID OF THE BUS?"

Which of the following terms was developed by Rene Spitz to describe a common outcome following sudden or prolonged separation of otherwise normally attached infants?

ANACLITIC DEPRESSION

Effect of prompts for tobacco use on provider behaviors

BEHAVIORS INCREASE

Enuresis alarm is a form of?

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

IV heroin user upon seeing the needle during a blood draw develops intense craving is an example of:

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Pt ate meat loaf then had a severe GI virus; develops a strong aversion to meat loaf.

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Pt undergoing chemotherapy. Commonly becomes nauseated and vomits in the waiting room prior to the treatment. Reaction is ex of?

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Pt who was in frightening MVA, consults psychiatrist for fears of driving, made car travel impossible. Behavior intervention is planned: psychiatrist will ride in traffic with pt and remain with pt until physical signs of fear diminished. What learning tx?

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Pt with cocaine addiction experiences cravings for cocaine whenever passing by a "crack house". This reaction exemplifies: (3x)

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

Systematic desensitization is derived from

CLASSICAL CONDITIONING THEORY

Man in line for the roller coaster repeatedly hears the same song. He rides the roller coaster, feels sick, vomits. Now when he hears the song he gets really nauseous. This feeling elicited by the song is what learning element?

CONDITIONED RESPONSE

As result of a MVA a pt feeling panic before having to drive and has begun to avoid it. Example of mechanism of fear development:

DIRECT CONDITIONING

A 10-yo child is afraid of dogs and has exposure therapy to the point where he can tolerate a small dog. A week later, he encounters a large dog. What is his response?

GIVEN THE NON-CLINICAL SETTING, THE REACTION IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT

a person afraid of loud noises has a panic attack in a grocery store after the shelving unit hits the floor, person takes lorazepam after hearing a loud noise, person then avoids grocery store. According to classical conditioning, what is the conditioned stimulus?

GROCERY STORE

Pt works near a train and soon doesn't notice the noise anymore. What's this called?

HABITUATION

According to operant conditioning, behavior decreases in frequency if (5x)

INCOMPATIBLE WITH A POSITIVELY REINFORCED BEHAVIOR

What is true regarding infant attachments when comparing the strength of bond with each parent?

INFANTS CAN FORM MULTIPLE ATTACHMENTS, BUT THE STRENGTH OF THOSE ATTACHMENTS MAY DIFFER

In Operant Conditioning, a partial or intermittent reinforcement schedule results in:

MAINTAINING A BEHAVIOR THAT IS RESISTANT TO EXTINCTION.

A 79yr old man seeks therapy following stress due to uncontrolled online shopping, patient begins to understand how each purchase improved mood and improved loneliness, this best explains what learning theory?

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Behavioral frequency altered by application of positive and negative consequences (2x)

OPERANT CONDITIONING

In biofeedback, the autonomic nervous system can come under voluntary control through which of the following mechanisms?

OPERANT CONDITIONING

Most important protective factor determining preschool child's reaction to disaster (2x)

PARENTAL FUNCTIONING

What type of reinforcement is most effective for maintaining behavior that is resistant to extinction?

PARTIAL

Repeated presentation of a conditioned stimulus without being paired with its unconditioned stimulus will result in what?

PARTIAL REINFORCEMENT

In operant conditioning, praising end result is considered

POSITIVE REINFORCER

Risk factor influencing psychological outcome of child following death of parent: (2x)

PRIOR CONFLICTUAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILD AND DECEASED PARENT

Which of the following is the most important protective factor in building resilience in children? Social skills, cognitive ability, quality of parenting, easy temperament, socioeconomic status

QUALITY OF PARENTING

18 m/o is vulnerable to separation and constantly concerned about mother's actual location. This is representative of Mahler's stage of:

RAPPROCHEMENT

If a response inhibitory to anxiety occurs in the presence of anxiety- evoking stimuli, it weakens the connection between the stimuli and the anxiety. This is called:

RECIPROCAL INHIBITION

A form of learned fear in which a person or an experimental animal learns to respond strongly not only to a harmful stimulus, but also to a subthreshold stimulus, refers to: (3x)

SENSITIZATION

Child is shown a rat and does not react. Then shows child rat w a loud noise. After several pairing of the rat and noise, the child then becomes fearful when just the rat is presented. In Pavlovian conditioning, what is the conditioned stimulus in this case?

THE RAT

2 y/o does not want to let go of wool blanket and resists going anywhere without it. Attachment type is:

TRANSITIONAL OBJECT

An operant conditioning reinforcement schedule that is used in casino slot machines and may play a role in the development of pathological gambling: (2x)

VARIABLE-RATIO

In behavioral psychology, extinction is defined as:

WEAKENING OF CONDITIONED RESPONSE DUE TO WITHDRAWAL OF STIMULUS