CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Golden Retriever, Car Alarm, Noxious Stimulus

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Tracy Dunne

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Stimulus similar to initial conditioned response (cs) elicit a conditioned response (cr) Example: bit by one dog, avoids all dogs. Example 2: all emergency vehicle alarms (firetruck, police car, ambulance) sound slightly different but cause the same reaction (fear, pull over car, etc. ) Cr occurs to one stimulus but not to another. Example: afraid of only golden retrievers, not all dogs, because a golden retriever bit you. Example 2: if a fire alarm goes off in a store, you leave. If a car alarm goes off, you ignore it, because you have discriminated between alarm noises. Stimuli that triggers unwanted behavior is paired with a noxious stimuli. Example: alcoholics sign up for a treatment that gives them a nausea pill after every drink they consume. Eventually, they will feel nauseous at the sight of a drink. The problem with aversion therapy is that it is not long lasting for human cognition because we.