PSY 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Habituation, Latent Inhibition, Neurosis

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3103
• Professor: Kevin Abbott

Document Summary

Disinhibition: is the sudden recovery of a conditioned response during an extinction prodecure when a unfarmiliar stimulus is introduced. Phobias, involve not only the classical conditioning of a fear response bu also an overgeneralization of that fear response to inappropriate stimuli. Extermental neurosis: over generalization is not the only way that processes of discrimination versus generalization influence the development of psychological disorders. Pavloved formulated a theory of personality in which inherited differences in temperament interact with classical conditioning to prodcit general patterns of behaviour. Eysencks theory is the distinction between introversion and extroversion. Sensory preconditioning: when one stimulus is conditioned as a cs, another stimulus with which it was preciously paired can also become a cs. Sensory preconditioning is significant because eit demonstrates that stimuli can become associated with eachother in the absence of any identifiable response. In this sense sensory preconditioning can be viewed as a form of latent learning.