The Learning Perspective Anxiety & Food Addiction
The Learning Perspective
Instead of speaking of symptoms caused by underlying
Events with anxiety and food addiction, learning
psychologists speak of acquired responses
and response tendencies. They believe that the
general principles of learning can be applied to the
understanding of all behavior, including anxiety disorders .
according to learning theorists, anxiety that reaches
clinical proportions is a learned or acquired response, a
symptom that has been created by environmental often in the home.
B. F. Skinner...a leading behaviorist, objects to any
references to mental events (thoughts or feelings) as
explanations of behavior; he prefers to rely almost exclusively
on observable stimulus and response (S and R)
variables. Other theorists emphasize S and R variables
but have gone one step beyond Skinner in dealing with
internal event s as well. Dollard and Miller (1999) were
among the earliest theorists to broaden the psychology
of learning to include mental events. They went so far
as to agree with psychodynamic theorists that there is a
history behind the development of neurotic behavior
and that psychotherapy (the "talking therapy") is the
optimum means of modifying it.
“If neurotic behavior is learned, it should be
unlearned by some combination of the same principles
by which it was taught. We believe this to be the case.
Psychotherapy establishes a set of conditions by which
neurotic habits may be unlearned and non-neurotic
habits learned. Therefore, we view the therapist as a
kind of teacher and the patient as a learner. In the
same way and by the same principles that bad tennis
habits can be corrected by a good coach, so bad
mental and emotional habits can be corrected by a
psychotherapist. There is this difference, however.
Whereas only a few people want to play tennis, all
the world wants a clear, free, efficient mind”.
- (Dollard and Miller)
Concepts such as conditioning, reinforcement,
and extinction have increasingly been applied to
the study of abnormal behavior. Several new, clinically
useful techniques, collectively referred to as behavioral
are the most valuable outcomes of these.
Research using behavior therapy has been directed
at discovering the variables that help defuse
highly emotional responses to the symptoms of food addiction.
Instead of speaking of symptoms caused by underlying
Events with anxiety and food addiction, learning
psychologists speak of acquired responses
and response tendencies. They believe that the
general principles of learning can be applied to the
understanding of all behavior, including anxiety disorders .
according to learning theorists, anxiety that reaches
clinical proportions is a learned or acquired response, a
symptom that has been created by environmental often in the home.
B. F. Skinner...a leading behaviorist, objects to any
references to mental events (thoughts or feelings) as
explanations of behavior; he prefers to rely almost exclusively
on observable stimulus and response (S and R)
variables. Other theorists emphasize S and R variables
but have gone one step beyond Skinner in dealing with
internal event s as well. Dollard and Miller (1999) were
among the earliest theorists to broaden the psychology
of learning to include mental events. They went so far
as to agree with psychodynamic theorists that there is a
history behind the development of neurotic behavior
and that psychotherapy (the "talking therapy") is the
optimum means of modifying it.
“If neurotic behavior is learned, it should be
unlearned by some combination of the same principles
by which it was taught. We believe this to be the case.
Psychotherapy establishes a set of conditions by which
neurotic habits may be unlearned and non-neurotic
habits learned. Therefore, we view the therapist as a
kind of teacher and the patient as a learner. In the
same way and by the same principles that bad tennis
habits can be corrected by a good coach, so bad
mental and emotional habits can be corrected by a
psychotherapist. There is this difference, however.
Whereas only a few people want to play tennis, all
the world wants a clear, free, efficient mind”.
- (Dollard and Miller)
Concepts such as conditioning, reinforcement,
and extinction have increasingly been applied to
the study of abnormal behavior. Several new, clinically
useful techniques, collectively referred to as behavioral
are the most valuable outcomes of these.
Research using behavior therapy has been directed
at discovering the variables that help defuse
highly emotional responses to the symptoms of food addiction.
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