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| partial arrest of attachment or mod of behavior from an early stage of development |
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| return to a less-mature level of functioning in the face of stress |
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| memories, feelings, and impulses of which a person is unaware. Often used as a noun, but more appropriately limited to use as an adjective |
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| Boszormenyi-Nagy's term for the amount of merit a person accrues for behaving in an ethical manner toward others |
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| emotional reactivity on the part of the therapist |
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| a form of respondent learning in which an unconditioned stimulus (UCS) such as food, which leads to an unconditioned response (UCR), such as salivation, is paired with a conditioned stimulus (CS) such as a bell, the result of which is that the CS begins to evoke the same response; used int he behavioral treatment of anxiety disorders |
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| a form of learning whereby a person or animal is rewarded for performing certain behaviors; the major approach in most forms of behavior therapy |
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| Functional analysis of behavior |
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| in operant behavior therapy, a study of a particular behavior, what elicits it, and what reinforces it |
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| role-playhing desired ways of behaving, especially in couple's therapy |
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| a behavior therapy technique whereby agreements are made between family members to exchange rewards for desired behavior |
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| Reinforcement reciporcity |
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| exchanging rewarding behaviors between family members |
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| eliminating behavior by not reinforcing it |
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| underlying core beliefs that an individual has developed about the world and how it functions |
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| Theory of social exchange |
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| Thibaut and Kelley's theory according to which people strive to maximize rewards and minimize costs in a relationship |
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| using punishment and criticism to eliminate undesirable responses; commonly used in dysfunctional families |
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| reinforcing change in small steps |
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| systems of rewards using points, which can be accumulated and exchanged for reinforcing items or behaviors |
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| using high-probability behavior (preferred activities) to reinforce low-probability behavior (non-preferred activities) |
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| literally, "something for something", an equal exchange or substitution |
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