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learning and motivation chapter 6

  • Medical Applications of Classical Conditioning

    • people with allergies might have a positive reaction just by looking at their allergy

    • various aspects of the immune system can be classically conditioned

      • hospital environment being associated with the immunosuppressive effect of chemotherapy

    • classical conditioning can be used to strengthen immune system functioning

      • sherbert increased natural killer cell activity after being paired with adrenaline

    • placebo effect: effect of pairing the appearance of the drug with the active ingredients of the drug

      • effects are much more likely to occur following a period of treatment with the active drug

      • repeated administration of a placebo by itself tends to reduce its effectiveness (process of extinction)

      • placebos can be used to reduce the frequency with which a patient has to take the real drug

      • placebo effect can be combined with the effect of the real drug to produce an enhanced form of treatment

    • sign of dog (ns) ➝ contact with dog (us) ➝ asthma symptoms (ur)

sign of dog (cs) ➝ asthma symptoms (cr)

  • hospital (ns) ➝ chemo (us) ➝ immunosuppression (ur)

hospital (cs) ➝ immunosuppression (cr)

  • following, reduce, extinction

  • elicited behavior is controlled by the stimuli that precede it

  • operant behaviors: behaviors that are influenced by their consequences

  • operant conditioning: effects of consequences on behavior. response operates on the environment to produce a consequence

  • also called instrumental learning because the response is instrumental in producing the consequence

  • consequences, precedes, follows, instrumentall

learning and motivation chapter 6

  • Medical Applications of Classical Conditioning

    • people with allergies might have a positive reaction just by looking at their allergy

    • various aspects of the immune system can be classically conditioned

      • hospital environment being associated with the immunosuppressive effect of chemotherapy

    • classical conditioning can be used to strengthen immune system functioning

      • sherbert increased natural killer cell activity after being paired with adrenaline

    • placebo effect: effect of pairing the appearance of the drug with the active ingredients of the drug

      • effects are much more likely to occur following a period of treatment with the active drug

      • repeated administration of a placebo by itself tends to reduce its effectiveness (process of extinction)

      • placebos can be used to reduce the frequency with which a patient has to take the real drug

      • placebo effect can be combined with the effect of the real drug to produce an enhanced form of treatment

    • sign of dog (ns) ➝ contact with dog (us) ➝ asthma symptoms (ur)

sign of dog (cs) ➝ asthma symptoms (cr)

  • hospital (ns) ➝ chemo (us) ➝ immunosuppression (ur)

hospital (cs) ➝ immunosuppression (cr)

  • following, reduce, extinction

  • elicited behavior is controlled by the stimuli that precede it

  • operant behaviors: behaviors that are influenced by their consequences

  • operant conditioning: effects of consequences on behavior. response operates on the environment to produce a consequence

  • also called instrumental learning because the response is instrumental in producing the consequence

  • consequences, precedes, follows, instrumentall

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