PSYC 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Classical Conditioning, Anxiety Disorder, Operant Conditioning

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 223
• Professor: Matson

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Unconditioned stimulus: ex: loud unexpected noise, have no prior exposure required. Unconditioned responses: reflexive behavior that occur in response to the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioned stimulus: initially a neural stimulus with no associated response. Conditioned response: when the previously neural stimulus now elicits a reflexive response. Aversive conditioning: adaptive, we can learn what signals particular types of aversive outcomes. Stimulus that was neutral to begin with is then associated with something bad and has an anxiety response. Two factor only applies to anxiety but does not specify if the behaviors are problematic. Whether it"s an anxiety disorder depends on if the avoidance behavior associates with impairment and distress along with whether or not there is a threat that justifies the avoidance behavior. An anxiety disorder is developing an anxiety related response to stimuli you have had bad experiences with in the past. Genetic factors (can be tested by looking at identical adopted twins to separate genetic from environmental factors)