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What are phobias?
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Irrational fears of specific objects or situations.
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What is learning?
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A relatively durable change in behaviour of knowledge that is due to experience.
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What is conditioning?
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Learning associations between events that occur in an organism's environment.
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What is classical conditioning?
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Also known as Pavlovian conditioning, it is a type of learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
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What is an unconditioned stimulus (UCS)?
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A stimulus that evokes an unconditioned response without previous conditioning.
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What is an unconditioned response (UCR)?
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An unlearned reaction to an unconditioned stimulus that occurs without previous conditioning.
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What is a conditioned stimulus (CS)?
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A previously neutral stimulus that has, through conditioning, acquired the capacity to evoke a conditioned response.
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What is a conditioned response (CR)?
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A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning.
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What is a trial in terms of classical conditioning?
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Consists of any presentation of stimulus or pair of stimuli.
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What is immunosuppression?
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A decrease in the production of antibodies.
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What are antibodies?
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Specialized proteins.
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What are some physiological processes governed by classical conditioning?
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- Immune resistance- Allergic reactions- Drug tolerance- Sexual arousal- Fetishes
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What are compensatory CRs?
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Opponent responses which partially compensate for some drug effects.
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What are the basic processes of classical conditioning?
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- Acquisition- Extinction- Spontaneous recovery
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What is acquisition in terms of classical conditioning?
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The initial stage of learning something.
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