PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Parietal Lobe, Overeating, Intersubjectivity
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Learning: relative durable change in behaviour or knowledge that is from experience. Phobia: irrational fears of speci c objects or situations: results from classical conditioning, type of anxiety disorder. Agoraphobia: fear of being in public places, feel as though cannot escape or dif cult to obtain help. Conditioning: learning connections between events that occur in an organism"s environment. Classical conditioning: stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus. Pavlovian conditioning: little albert experiment, (j. b. watson) phobias are conditioned into an individual. Anything associated with similar characteristics as a rat generated fear in albert. Recurrent, overwhelming anxiety attacks that occur unexpectedly: dog salivating. Associated a click with the presentation of meat. Salivation started once the click was heard. Auditory stimulus: tone was presented every time meat was (was not a bell, was not as effective, startled dogs) Unconditioned stimulus: evokes unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
