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Covert conditioning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Covert conditioning is an approach to mental health treatment that uses the principles of behavior modification, which emerged from the applied behavior analysis literature to assist people in making...
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Covert sensitization was first described in the mid-1960s by psychologist Joseph Cautela as a new treatment for people who engage in undesirable behaviors.
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Covert sensitization is a form of behavior therapy in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an unpleasant image in order to eliminate that behavior. ... The patient being treated with covert sensitization can expect a fairly standard set of procedures. The therapist begins by assessing the problem behavior,
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Results of the assisted covert sensitization case study indicate that, while expected decrements in sexual arousal to sexually inappropriate stimuli were observed, decrements in sexual arousal and self-report were also observed for sexually appropriate stimuli which received no aversive consequences,
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Covert sensitization is a form of sensitization in which the conditioning process occurs in imagination, out of sight (therefore covert rather than overt). Suppose an alcoholic wishes to give up drinking. One approach is to attempt to establish a negative emotional response to thoughts of drinking.
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BioInfoBank Library :: The contribution of therapeutic instruction of covert sensitization. Fading to increase heterosexual responsiveness in homosexuals. ... Heterosexual responsiveness, measured by penile responses and reports of behavior, was strengthened in three homosexuals through As the sexual response was emitted,
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