Showing papers in "Advances in Behaviour Research and Therapy in 1992"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider classical conditioning models of human fears and phobias in a contemporary context, and consider how conditioning models might be of some theoretical help in this area.

TL;DR: The results support the assumption that too much flexibility and too much adaptation can be disadvantageous, at least for the treatment of phobic patients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline conceptual expectations of the constructs of craving and hunger, and review evidence suggesting that neither craving nor hunger is a simple reflection of underlying biologic need, has reliable physiological correlates or controls, is strongly linked to affective state, or reliably predicts consumption.

TL;DR: Salivation but not urge to drink was predictive of quantity and frequency of drinking during the first three months post-detoxification, consistent with appetitive-motivation models of alcohol use and with Tiffany's (1990) hypothesis that automatic processes are more important than conscious processes in drug-use behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, a cognitive model was proposed that assumes that the processes that control drug use in the addict operate independently of those supporting drug urges, drawing on the strong parallels between various descriptions of automatic and nonautomatic cognitive processing and some key characteristics of drug-use behavior and drug urges.

TL;DR: Most reported treatment studies were for conduct problems, although there were a few reports of interventions for sexual disorders, substance abuse prevention, and mental retardation, most of which were somewhat successful on a short-term basis.

TL;DR: The inclusion of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the American Psychiatric Association's (APA) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III) has been associated with an exponential increase in the number of stress-related publications.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relation among affective processing measures as assessed by the Affective Information Processing Questionnaire (AIPQ) and smoking indices and found that the affect control expectations measures predicted post-stressor measures of negative affect, urge to smoke, negative reinforcement from smoking, and alveolar carbon monoxide value.

TL;DR: In this paper, a systematization and partial reconstruction of the latest version of the Activation Theory of Personality in the form of 23 postulates is presented. And the current logico-systematical and empirical status of the theory, as well as its potential for further development is evaluated.

TL;DR: The Paradigmatic Behavioral Assessment (PBA) as mentioned in this paper is an alternative framework for behavioral assessment that can incorporate aspects of traditional psychological measurement in a manner that provides the heuristic foundation for reaching the promise of the behavioral approach.