PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Learned Helplessness, Tutsi, Classical Conditioning

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

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Questions: how a neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus real life example. A neutral stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus when the ns is continuously paired with an unconditioned stimulus. For example: learned helplessness how can it be applied to human behaviour. Learned helplessness can be applied to human behaviour because when we are repeatedly exposed to aversive events that we can neither escape or avoid, we learn to do nothing simply to sit helplessly and suffer the punishment. For example, the tutsi people of rwanda were not able to do anything to help themselves during the genocide and the harsh treatments they received. Learned helplessness enables a person to be completely passive during aversive conditions: extinction how does it occur with a conditioned stimulus. Extinction occurs when a conditioned stimulus (i. e. a tone) is still given, but is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus (i. e. food).