Biological Preparedness Biological preparedness is a concept that proposes that organisms innately form associations between some stimuli and responses. Behaviorists use this concept as a main tenet in classical conditioning. Some associations are easily made and are thought to be inherent while some are...
Some inadequacies of the classical conditioning analysis of phobias are discussed: phobias are highly resistant to extinction, whereas laboratory fear conditioning, unlike avoidance conditioning, extinguishes rapidly; phobias comprise a nonarbitrary and limited set of objects, whereas fear conditioning is ...
Specifically, in this chapter I will give an overview of the fact that, with regard to biological fear-related stimuli in classical conditioning of fear in people, (1) conditioning is quick, (2) there is high resistance to extinction, (3) associative learning is established even when the ...
classical conditioningskin conductancephobiasIn the present study, an attempt was made to replicate the preparedness effect reported by hman, Fredrickson, Hugdahl, & Rimm (1976). Following hman et al. (1976) as closely as possible, a differential conditioning procedure was carried out in which ...