PSYC 1001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Anxiety Disorder, Eyelid
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What is conditioning? learning is any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Phobias are irrational fears of specific objects or situations and are often the result of another learning process termed classical conditioning. Conditioning involves learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment: classical (pavlovian) conditioning. Classical conditioning is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response originally evoked by another stimulus. Pioneered by ivan pavlov, who conditioned dogs to salivate when a tone was present. Classical conditioning mainly regulates involuntary, reflexive responses. Begins with an unconditioned stimulus (ucs) that elicits an unconditioned response (ucr) Everyday life: salivation, eyelid closure, knee jerks, the flexing of various limbs and fear responses. Fear and anxiety: classical conditioning plays a key role. Patients suffering from phobias suggest that many irrational fears can be traced back to experiences that involve classical conditioning.
