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Behaviorism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Used to inhibit bad behavior or habits
      - To treat alcoholics : everytime they drink alcohol ,they are made to take a vomit inducing tablet.
      - Associating neutral stimulus alcohol with the horrible sensation of vomiting .
      - Ineffective because the brain knows that in real life you wont be taking vomit inducing tablet.
    - - To treat phobias(irrational sense of fear)
      - Directly exposing them to the source of fear in a controlled environment for a specified period of time.
      - Initially the person will feel anxious but once exhausted from anxiety .they will be able to rationalize that his/her phobia is harmless
      - Can be dangerous as some of the patients will not able to cope with so much of anxiety at once and may become even more phobic
    - - A hierarchy of fears is built.
      - The person is first exposed to the least concentrated form of fear
      - Once the person becomes comfortable in that stage ,only then is the concentration of the fear is increased
- - - - Negative Reinforcement
        
        Removing something that is aversive
        
        For eg: you dont get to do the dishes for one day because you came first in the class
      - Punishment
        
        Not that when it comes to bringing up children.
      - Positive reinforcement
    - - Fixed /Variable ratio : reward after every nth response or after any nth response
      - Fixed /variable interval
    - - Once reward is denied ,the behavior stops
      - To reinforce a behavior for a long time ,variable ratio/interval reinforcement is effective