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Behavior analysis, cognitive therapy, and covert conditioning.

J R Cautela¹, A J Kearney

¹Behavior Therapy Institute, Sudbury, Massachusetts.

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

|June 1, 1990

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Behavior analysts can extend behavior therapy to private events using imagery techniques. Covert conditioning, based on operant principles, offers a learning-based approach for modifying behavior, surpassing cognitive therapy for private events.

Area of Science:

Behavioral Psychology
Behavior Therapy
Learning Principles

Background:

Behavioral analytic framework application to behavior therapy and private events is of interest.
Imagery-based behavior therapy procedures are designed using learning principles.

Purpose of the Study:

To highlight covert conditioning as a viable behavior analytic approach for private events.
To advocate for covert conditioning over cognitive therapy in behavior analysis.

Main Methods:

Review of existing imagery-based behavior therapy techniques.
Analysis of covert conditioning based on operant conditioning principles.

Main Results:

Systematic desensitization, implosive therapy, and covert conditioning utilize learning principles.

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Covert conditioning is explicitly founded on operant conditioning principles.

Conclusions:

Covert conditioning integrates behavior analysis, behavior therapy, and imagery effectively.
Covert conditioning should be prioritized over cognitive therapy for behavior analysts studying and modifying private events.