PSYC 180 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Aversion Therapy, Sexual Fetishism, Certified Emission Reduction
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One way behavior is modified by environment. Inter-trial interval how many trials are there and how fair apart are these trails (low: want as many trials close together as possible to create a strong connection. Extinction if too much time passes after stimulus is presented or you never get the conditioned stimulus, the conditioning will become extinct: cs presented without us, cs no longer elicits cr. Phobias associate a fearful experience with a fearful response. Can sometimes occur very quickly, only have to experience it once and they can develop that fear instantaneously. Treatment = desensitization: breaking that fearful association, pairing fearful things with happy music or something enjoyable. Eat a burger, you get food poisoning don"t want to eat that burger again or it takes you a long time to be able to eat that burger again even though they don"t have food poisoning again. Treatment exposure to those foods without a negative reaction.
