Overview
Conditioned emotional responses are a fundamental concept in psychology, illustrating how emotions can be learned through experiences. This process often involves associating a neutral stimulus with an emotional event, leading to a conditioned response. For example, if a child experiences a traumati...
Key Terms
Example: Pavlov's dogs learned to salivate at the sound of a bell.
Example: Food is an unconditioned stimulus that causes salivation.
Example: The bell in Pavlov's experiment became a conditioned stimulus.
Example: Salivating at the sound of the bell is a conditioned response.
Example: A dog conditioned to salivate to a bell may also salivate to a similar sound.
Example: A dog learns to salivate only to a specific bell tone.
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intermediateKey Concepts
classical conditioningemotional triggersstimulus-responsebehavioral psychology