PSYB45H3 Chapter 8: PSYB45 Chapter 8 Detailed notes
16 Feb 2012
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Naturally reflexive action of the body that occurs when us is present. Simultaneous conditioning: ns and us presented at same time. Process of respondent conditioning can develop css for positive cers or negative cers: although notion of cers has intuitive appeal, can be some difficulty in operationalizing or measuring emotional responses. Some emotional responses are overt, and easily observable: include crying, smiling and other facial expressions, and postures indicative of autonomic arousal or calmness. Physiological responses involved in autonomic arousal: autonomic arousal may also be detected by recording skin temperature at tips of fingers. Emotional reactions like love are not observable or measurable: difficulty is that because can"t be observed independently and not clear what responses are. Extinction of conditioned responses involved in emotions people report: respondent extinction: extinction of cr. Involves repeated presentation of cs without presenting the us. If cs continues to occur in absence of us, cr eventually decreases in intensity and stops.
