7th edition Psych Wayne Weiten Ch.6 Outline
Subject:
Psychology [1]
Tags:
Behaviorism [2]
behavior [3]
Psychology [5]
Reinforcement [8]
Extinction [9]
learning [10]
Phobia [11]
Punishment [12]
Shaping [13]
Classical conditioning explains how a neutral stimulus can acquire the capacity to elicit a response originally evoked by another stimulus Many kinds of everyday responses are regulated through classical conditioning including phobias fears and pleasant emotional responses even physiological responses such as immune and sexual functioning respond to classical conditioning A conditioned response may be weaken and extinguished entirely when the CS is no longer paired with the UCS in some cases spontaneous recovery may occur and the extinguished response reappears after a period of nonexposure