What are the benefits and problems of using extinction and punishment to change
maladaptive behaviors? What are the therapist's goals?
What will be an ideal response?
The answer should describe the possible uses of extinction. It should then describe the
two major problems with extinction: extinction burst and difficulty eliminating the reinforcers for
the undesired behaviors. Similarly, the answershould indicate problems with the use of
punishment. It should indicate that punishment is sometimes used as a last resort when extreme
self-harming does not respond to other techniques.
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Social psychologists sometimes use the Indonesian term ____________________ to refer to the idea of becoming wildly and uncontrollably violent and destructive, or "going berserk."
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
Minerva was extremely anxious and worried about everything. She thought that something terrible would happen and worried what people thought about her. She was also jumpy and suffered from episodes of heart palpitations due to anxiety. Her doctor most likely prescribed ___________ to help her
a. an opiate b. a benzodiazepine c. an anxiolytic d. an antidepressant
_____ was one of the first theorists to emphasize the role of thought in depression.
A) Noam Chomsky B) Abraham Maslow C) Aaron Beck D) Sigmund Freud
The major advantage of fMRI over PET is that fMRI:
A) measures both brain structure and function. B) allows for cause-and-effect determinations between brain function and behaviour to be made. C) does not involve the use of an expensive machine that generates magnetic pulses. D) allows for the measurement of brain activity on a much shorter time scale.