PSYC 001 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Classical Conditioning, Dishabituation, Habituation
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Your reaction (yelling) in response to your annoying brother (aversive stimulus) is an example of sensitization. Learning is acquired and persists until extinction: acquisition the gradual formation of an association between the conditioned and unconditioned stimuli, during acquisition, the cs-us pairings lead to increased learning. Punishment decreases behavior: positive punishment the administration of a stimulus to decrease the probability of a, negative punishment the removal of a stimulus to decrease the probability of a behavior"s recurring behavior"s recurring. If music gives a listener pleasurable chills, dopamine activity is occurring in the brain: wanting vs liking even if a person wants a cigarette because he is addicted, he no longer enjoys the behavior of smoking. Watching violence in media may encourage aggression: studies have shown that playing violet video games desensitizes children to violence. Fear can be learned through observation: the social learning of fear likely relies on the amygdala, animals are biologically prepared to fear certain objects.
