PSYC 100 Study Guide - Nail Polish, Master Sergeant, Classical Conditioning

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Midterm on 24/10/11 chapter 2 and chapter 6. : recognize stimuli that predict important events eg things that can hurt us, summer, etc, Functional: make appropriate response quickly and effectively, stimuli that used to be unimportant can now modify behaviour (eg click, behaviorism. The view that psychology should be an objective science that studies behavior without making reference to mental processes. Learned behaviors can be reduced to mindless mechanisms. Animals learn an expectancy for the unconditioned stimulus: eg: fear conditioning. Animals learn an expectancy for the unconditioned stimulus. Biological predispositions: learn quickly about what is going to kill us, humans can easily develop classically conditioned nausea. Applications of classical conditioning: advertisers use classical conditioning principles to make us feel good about their products, eg nail biting with the nail polish for nail biting. Alcoholics maybe conditioned with aversive experiences to reverse positive associations with alcohol.