Applications of Pavlovian Conditioning

Question 1

aversion therapy

Answer 1

behavior therapy designed to make a patient give up an undesirable habit by causing them to associate it with an unpleasant effect; i.e, nausea via drugs

Question 2

conditioned emotional response

Answer 2

emotional reactions such as love, hate, fear, and disgust are largely learned mainly though pavlovian conditioning

Question 3

conditioned taste aversion

Answer 3

occurs when an animal associates the taste of a certain food with undesirable symptoms after the food was consumed

Question 4

counterconditioning

Answer 4

use of pavlovian conditioning to reverse the unwanted effects of previous conditioning

Question 5

exposure therapy

Answer 5

type of therapy where a person is gradually introduced to the fear-evoking stimulus while being relaxed

Question 6

systematic desensitization

Answer 6

a treatment for phobias in which the patient is exposed to progressively more anxiety-provoking stimuli and taught relaxation techniques

Question 7

virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET)

Answer 7

form of treatment where a person can interact with their fears in an environment that is neither imaginary nor real