PS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Immunosuppressive Drug, Wayne Gretzky, Immunosuppression
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Even the drug administration process itself can become a cs associated with drug effects. These environmental cues eventually begin to elicit compensatory crs that partially cancel out some of the anticipated effects of abused drugs. It"s the best option: simultaneous, cs (tone) presented at the same time as ucs (food) presented. Takes longer to make the pairing, it"s slower and the tone and food are paired together: backward, cs (tone) presented after the ucs (food) presented. Used in both animals and humans: is necessary when an organism does not, on its own, emit the desired response, Therefore, the sauce become a conditioned stimulus eliciting nausea: preparedness, involves a species specific predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways and not others, explains why phobias are more common than others. People tend to develop phobias to snakes, spiders, heights and darkness relatively easy.
