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Behavior Therapy (applied behavior analysis, behavior modification) ✔✔Therapeutic
intervention designed to change behavior using techniques of operant and respondent
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CBMT Exam Prep Questions and
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Behavior Therapy (applied behavior analysis, behavior modification) ✔✔Therapeutic
intervention designed to change behavior using techniques of operant and respondent
conditioning as well as behavior analysis.
Cue ✔✔stimulus, prompt): An event that sets the occasion or a certain event to occur.
Discriminative Stimulus ✔✔A cue which results in a response when that response occurs only
after its presentation, and not after other cues.
Fading ✔✔The gradual removal of explicit prompts or cues in an attempt to maintain the
behavior on its own.
Generalization ✔✔The transfer of effects to other behaviors, stimuli, conditions or settings.
Group contingencies ✔✔Consequences for a group as a whole dependent upon the occurrences
of specified behavior in the entire group.
Insight Therapy ✔✔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 ✔✔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 ✔✔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 ✔✔An approach to music education by Carl Orff that emphasizes creative
experience, natural abilities and sounds, the pentatonic scale and obstinate.
Paired-associate ✔✔Presentation of one word as the stimulus for the recall of a second word.
Positive Reinforcement ✔✔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 ✔✔A music therapy approach which uses music as a metaphor for
examining relationships.
Psychodynamic Therapy ✔✔A system of psychotherapy based on an individual's unconscious
motivation and past experience.
Rational Emotive Therapy ✔✔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 ✔✔One type of insight-oriented therapy which examines unconscious
and deep set emotions in order to restructure the personality.
Reeducative Therapy ✔✔One type of insight-oriented therapy which promotes self growth and
adjustment through behavior change.
Schedule of Reinforcement ✔✔The behavior requirement for a reinforcing stimulus to be
delivered. Schedules may not be fixed or variable, based on interval or ratio criteria.
Shaping ✔✔A technique for developing new behaviors by reinforcing successive
approximations of the desired behavior.
Successive approximations ✔✔Behaviors which gradually resemble the target or terminal
objective.
Transactional Analysis ✔✔System of psychotherapy proposed by Eric Berne which examines
interactions in terms of explicit roles and games as a method of recognizing and understanding
these patterns of behavior.
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