PSY 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 2: Certified Emission Reduction, Bee Sting, Asthma

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3103
• Professor: Christine Boisvert

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Reading for week 2 + 3 (lec 2) Pavlovian conditioning affects almost all reflexes, including salivation, eye blinking, emotional responses, sexual responses, and psychosomatic symptoms. Stated simply, pavlovian conditioning occurs when some neutral stimulus is so closely associated with an existing reflex that it takes on the power to elicit the reflexive response. When a young child first sees a honeybee, the child has no innate fear of the bee: the bee is a neutral stimulus (ns) upon first sight. Predictive stimuli: a cs contains important information about things that may come next. In the case of bees, the cs serves as a warning stimulus that signals danger by eliciting fear before children carelessly touch a bee. A cs functions as a predictive stimulus indicating that a reflex might soon be elicited (i. e. the sight and odor of a delicious meal are css that can elicit salivation and pleasurable anticipation of food.