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Instrumental Behavior in Pavlovian-instrumental Transfer for Depression Therapy
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Abstract
The mental condition is closely linked with people’s instrumental behavior, which allows us to adapt to the external environment. Rely on the positive valence system, the habits and goal or value seeking behavior is linked with the instrumental behavior and the influence of environmental cues. While depression patients build up an aversive Pavlovian-instrumental transfer and form a biased emotional state. The Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer (PIT) was influenced by the environment and was reflected in biological chemistry level. Also, in the safety learning and exposure therapy, instrumental behavior has become a fundamental factor of generation of safety signals to help ease fear and anxiety. It makes exposure therapy possible. All of them are revealing that by changing instrumental behavior, it may be able to change patients’ mental condition and contribute to depression therapy. In the future, simple and effective instrumental behavior may be able to get into therapy and recover procedure of all kinds of mental disorders.
Keywords
instrumental behavior, depression therapy, environmental cues, Pavlovian-instrumental transfer (PIT), positive valence system
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Xu,Y. (2025). Instrumental Behavior in Pavlovian-instrumental Transfer for Depression Therapy. Communications in Humanities Research,56,24-30.
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