PSYB45H3 Lecture Notes - Latent Inhibition, Classical Conditioning, Conditioned Taste Aversion
Document Summary
Conditioned emotional response (cer): one type of respondent beh that concerns applied beh analysis. Two categories of fear: phobia (intense and irrational fear of something specific) and anxiety (fear that has a vague or unspecified source) Experience and biology play imp roles in learning cers. Role of direct and indirect experience in cers. Ppl can acquire cers through direct or indirect respondent conditioning. Direct = person actually experiences cs and us. Indirect = person acquires a cer by observing other ppl in fearful sit (modelling) or receiving fearful info about situation. Phobias common in childhood and most phobias tend to disappear on their own in months. Most experience neg situations with feared obj. Way indirect leads to cer is unclear and direct processes dont account well for the fact that many ppl who have extremely frightening experiences do not develop long lasting severe fears.
