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Cognitive Behavior Modification—Who Needs it?

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There is an abundance of evidence from everyday living that illustrates the control that has been acquired by intraorganismic variables, especially the control exercised over verbal behavior. Parents shape their children to say that they need to go to the bathroom when the bladder or bowels are filled. An increase in muscle action potential in the frontalis muscle is frequently an acquired source of control over the verbal behavior, “I have a headache.” An increase in autonomic nervous system activity may develop as a source of control over “I feel tense or anxious.” There are many other similar examples of the control acquired by other intraorganismic systems. The increasing volume of research in biofeedback may provide additional information about the acquisition and exercise of control over many different behaviors by intraorganismic systems.

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  1. University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, 79762, USA

    Joel Greenspoon

  2. University of North Carolina — Charlotte, USA

    P. A. Lamal

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Greenspoon, J., Lamal, P.A. Cognitive Behavior Modification—Who Needs it?. Psychol Rec 28, 343–351 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03394545

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