PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Immunosuppression, Dependent And Independent Variables
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Learning is any relatively durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is due to experience. Animals can learn & the principles that explain learned responses in animals explain human behaviour as well. Phobias are irrational fears of objects or situations, often a result of classical conditioning. Phobias are a type of anxiety disorder (10% of canadian population suffer from these). Fear of being in public places difficult to escape from or in which it might be difficult to get help (1% of canadian population suffer from this; more women than men). They can be treated but sometimes they suddenly disappear on their own. You can even use virtual reality therapy & cognitive-behavioural therapy. Conditioning refers to learning connections between events in an organism"s environment. A type of learning in which stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. First described around 1900 by russian physiologist ivan pavlov.
