FRHD 3150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Aversion Therapy, Classical Conditioning
1 Jun 2018
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Respondent Conditioning
• If a stimulus is followed closely in time by an unconditioned stimulus that elicits an
unconditioned response, then the previously neutral stimulus will also tend to elicit that
response in the future
• Classical conditioning
• Pavlov
• Involves repeated pairings to create conditioned reinforcer
Strength of Respondent Conditioning
• More pairings create stronger conditioning
• ½ second in pairing is ideal
• Discriminate pairings
Higher Order Pairing
• Process in which conditioned stimuli are paired with new unconditional stimuli to produce the
same behaviour
• First order
o Food -> salivation
o Food + bell -> salivation
o Bell -> salivation
• Second order
o Bell -> salivation
o Bell + light -> salivation
o Light -> salivation
Eliminating the Conditioned Response
• Respondent extinction
o Present CS but withhold food, eventually CS loses capability of eliciting response
• Counter conditioning
o CS will lose its ability to elicit a CR if that CS is paired with a stimulus that elicits a
response that it incompatible with the CR
Counter Conditioning
• Any of a group of conditioning techniques used to replace a negative conditioned response to a
stimulus with a positive response
• A process used in behavioural therapy in which a learned response is replaced by an alternative
response that is less disruptive
Aversion Therapy
• Counter conditioning
• Uses aversion therefore may be some ethical concerns
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