PSYC 3222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mary Cover Jones, Little Albert Experiment, Parenting
6 Feb 2017
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Classical conditioning is just eliciting an internal response and pairing it with a stimuli. Emotional responses are conditioned to various stimuli as a result of pairings that occur between conditioned stimuli such as distinctive sounds, smells, sights, or tastes, and unconditioned stimuli such as those that produce fear or love or anger. Emotional responses can spread to things that resemble conditioned stimuli. A panic reaction in a veteran with ptsd when hearing a car backfire. Not just military personnel, can happen from any trauma. Transfer: the making of similar responses for a variety of related stimuli. (generalization of response) In the case of ptsd people might become agoraphobic, and will stay in their houses in fear of what might set off their ptsd. Negative emotional reactions can be produced by repeatedly pairing a stimulus associated with some negative emotion with another distinctive stimulus. Positive emotional reactions can be trained to neutral stimuli.
