Behavior Therapy (applied behavior analysis, behavior modification) - Answer- Therapeutic intervention designed to change behavior using techniques of
... [Show More] operant and respondent conditioning as well as behavior analysis.
Cue - Answer- stimulus, prompt): An event that sets the occasion or a certain event to occur.
Discriminative Stimulus - Answer- A cue which results in a response when that response occurs only after its presentation, and not after other cues.
Fading - Answer- The gradual removal of explicit prompts or cues in an attempt to maintain the behavior on its own.
Generalization - Answer- The transfer of effects to other behaviors, stimuli, conditions or settings.
Group contingencies - Answer- Consequences for a group as a whole dependent upon the occurrences of specified behavior in the entire group.
Insight Therapy - Answer- An approach to psychotherapy whose objective is awareness of causes or motivations for behavior which, then, leads to control over the behavior and improvement of one's condition.
Melodic IntonationTherapy - Answer- Clinical uses of melodies that emphasize intonation in normal speech to develop language skills in aphasic patients and others needing remediation in propositional language.
Negative Punishment - Answer- The removal of stimulus, resulting in a decrease in behavior, e.g. stopping the music after the occurrence of inappropriate behavior which rests in a decrease of inappropriate behavior.
Orff-Schulwerk - Answer- An approach to music education by Carl Orff that emphasizes creative experience, natural abilities and sounds, the pentatonic scale and obstinate.
Paired-associate - Answer- Presentation of one word as the stimulus for the recall of a second word.
Positive Reinforcement - Answer- The presentation of a stimulus, resulting in an increase in the behavior it follows, e.g., practicing piano increases when the purchase of a new piano is made contingent upon greater practice time.
Psychiatric Musicology - Answer- A music therapy approach which uses music as a metaphor for examining relationships.
Psychodynamic Therapy - Answer- A system of psychotherapy based on an individual's unconscious motivation and past experience.
Rational Emotive Therapy - Answer- A system of psychotherapy proposed by Albert Ellis which attempts to confront one's rational belief system as a method of solving problems.
Reconstructive Therapy - Answer- One type of insight-oriented therapy which examines unconscious and deep set emotions in order to restructure the personality.
Reeducative Therapy - Answer- One type of insight-oriented therapy which promotes self growth and adjustment through behavior change.
Schedule of Reinforcement - Answer- The behavior requirement for a reinforcing stimulus to be delivered. Schedules may not be fixed or variable, based on interval or ratio criteria.
Shaping - Answer- A technique for developing new behaviors by reinforcing successive approximations of the desired behavior.
Successive approximations - Answer- Behaviors which gradually resemble the target or terminal objective.
Transactional Analysis - Answer- System of psychotherapy proposed by Eric Berne which examines interactions in terms of explicit roles and games as a method of recognizing and understanding the [Show Less]