Behavior experiment

Question 1

Behaviour experiments

Answer 1

In exposure, patients confront the personal expectations of danger and their assumed inability to cope with their reaction aside form just the situation. It is therefore processed cognitively, making it a cognitive procedure

Question 2

Cognitive change

Answer 2

Must be demonstrated, not assumed. They don’t follow from changes in behaviour, but have to be explicitly expressed (expectations, interpretations etc.)

Question 3

Theory of causalty

Answer 3

Psychologicla distress is not caused by one aspect, but an interaction of factors