Behaviorism

behaviorist theory

hold that behavior is learned as people interact with their environment; psychology as an objective study of behavior

Dollard and Miller

behaviorist theorists who attempted to study psychoanalytic concepts within a behaviorist framework; also known for their work on approach-avoidance conflicts

Bandura’s social learning theory

holds that learning occurs not only by having one’s own behavior reinforced (Skinner), but also by observing other people’s behaviors being reinforced

Seligman

conducted studies of learned helplessness with dogs

behavior therapy

modality of therapy wherein maladjustment and abnormal behavior is viewed as learned through interactions between people and the environment; faulty coping mechanisms are maintained through some kind of reinforcement

Beck’s cognitive therapy for depression

a form of CBT that tries to change and restructure patients’ distorted and/or irrational thoughts

Ellis’s rational-emotive therapy

a form of CBT that assumes people develop irrational ways of thinking and help patients challenge, recognize, and change these beliefs to more rational ones