PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Applied Behavior Analysis, Certified Emission Reduction, Vomiting
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Conditioned emotional response (cer): respondent behavior that is of concern in. Fear that has a vague or unspecified source. Role of direct and indirect experience in cers. People can acquire cers through di- rect and indirect respondent condi- tioning: Direct, when the person actually experiences the cs and us. Indirect, when the person ac- quires a cer through modeling or by receiving fearful information about the situation. Phobias common in childhood, most disappear on their own in months. Studies of fear across diverse cultural and within families, evidence for a role of biolog- ical processes in peoples development of cers. To examine genetics, compare a characteristic -presence of fear- among identical (monozygotic) and same sex fraternal (dizygotic) twins. If genetic factors are involved in the development of fears there should be a greater number of similarities in identical twins! From pavlov, we know that all physiological reactions can become crs by way of re- spondent conditioning.
