1. Human Learning
Topic 3: Part 3 Respondent Conditioning Applications
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2. Applications
 Paraphilia treatment
 Aversion therapy
 Conditioned taste aversions
 Latent inhibition holds
 Chemotherapy
 Alcoholism
 Aversion Therapy
 Advertising
 Anxiety
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3. CCR
 Drug Overdosing
 Compensatory conditioned response
 You develop CR to the environment and method of
ingestion
 Here’s a case where the CR is different from the UR
 US for taking marijuana is tachycardia (fast heart rate)
 The CS is a friends house.
 You go to the house, your heart rate DROPS (CR =
bradycardia)
 You then take the drug
 This is a partial explanation for tolerance
 Effects of a different environment can produce overdosing
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4. Credits
 www.sxc.hu
 Beer – mzacha
 Needle – LittleMan
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