PSYC-281 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Neurosis, Abusive Power And Control, Learned Helplessness
24 Apr 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Distinguish between escape and avoidance behavior, and describe the evolution of these behaviors in a shuttle avoidance procedure. Escape behaviour is when the behaviour terminates the aversive stimulus. Avoidance behaviour is when the behaviour prevents the aversive stimulus theory account for avoidance behavior? from occurring. One first learns to escape an aversive stimulus and then avoid it, as shown in a shuttle avoidance procedure in which an animal has to run back and forth in a box to avoid an aversive stimulus. One criticism of the two process theory of avoidance is that avoidance these criticisms been answered? responses are often extremely persistent. Extinction will occur eventually however, but only with repeated exposures of the cs without the us. A second criticism is that subjects appeared to show no evidence of fear but continued to make the avoidance responses anyway, but the two-process theory predicts the avoidance response will cease when the fear feeling does.
