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Aversion Therapy Correct Answers - Form of behavioral
therapy in which an undesirable behavior is paired with an
aversive stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior.

Backward Conditioning Correct Answers - A procedure in
which the conditioned stimulus is presented shortly after the
unconditioned stimulus on each trial.
- Not effective at creating conditioned responses.

Blocking Correct Answers - One stimulus interferes with the
ability of another to become a conditioned stimulus.
- The effect is due to prior experience with one part of a
compound stimulus.

Classical Conditioning and Addiction Correct Answers - Helps
us understand the basic phenomena: the high, tolerance,
withdrawal symptoms, and relapse.
- It has also led to treatments, including aversion therapy and
extinction.

Classical Conditioning and Healthcare Correct Answers -
Shows promise as a means of diagnosing and studying medical
problems, including deafness, autism, and dementia.
- It also may prove useful in the treatment of some health
problems.
- Through conditioning, we may soon be able to enhance the
immune response to help people fight off diseases such as
cancer.

, Classical Conditioning Correct Answers - A learning process
that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired.
- A response that is at first elicited by the second stimulus is
eventually elicited by the first stimulus alone.

Compensatory Response Theory Correct Answers - A variation
of the preparatory response theory that proposes that the
conditioned response prepares the organism for the
unconditioned stimulus by compensating for its effects.

Compound Stimulus Correct Answers - A complex stimulus
that consists of the simultaneous presentation of two or more
individual stimuli.

Conditional Reflexes Correct Answers - Learned reflexes, as
opposed to naturally occurring ones.

Conditioned Emotional Response Correct Answers - Emotional
response that has become classically conditioned to occur to
learned stimuli, such as a fear of dogs or the emotional reaction
that occurs when seeing an attractive person.

Conditioned Stimulus Correct Answers - In classical
conditioning, an originally irrelevant stimulus that, after
association with an unconditioned stimulus, comes to trigger a
conditioned response.

Conditioned Taste/Food Avoidance Correct Answers -
Development of an avoidance response to a particular taste
because that taste was followed by aversive effects, often
occurring after only one association.

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