PSY 2012 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Operant Conditioning Chamber, Autonomic Nervous System, Operant Conditioning
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What is an example of extinction? (use the dog example) The dog being exposed to the bell (cs) without the food (ucs), resulting in the gradual disappearance of the salivation (cr) Initially when the bell (cs) is rung again and again and no food (ucs) comes the salivation (cr) is repressedthen as little as 2 hours later when the cs is heard again, the dog salivates (cr reappears) Paul has a phobia of spiders and this occurred when he went to his grandmas house. Now every time paul goes to his grandmas house, his cr of his fear of spiders reappears. Cristyn leaned how to drive her own car, now when she needs to drive dom"s car she already knows what she"s doing. Ollie is not scared of petting a similar looking dog to the one that bit him yesterday because he knows it"s not the same dog, even though it looks alike.
