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    STUDY GUIDE ONLY SLIDE1 CLASSICAL CONDITIONING AND FEAR Phobias are a Product of Classical Conditioning Classical Conditioning is Used to Treat phobias (Speaker Notes) Phobias are developed through classical conditioning. Olson & Hergenhahn‚ (2013) define classical conditioning as “An experimental arrangement whereby a stimulus is made to elicit a response that was not previously associated with that stimulus” (p. 418). Just as phobias are developed through classical conditioning‚ it is also

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    had difficulties finding a job (13). He eventually started a very famous pencil making business (13). Henry ’s parents named him David Henry Thoreau‚ "after his uncle David Thoreau" (Stanley 16). Thoreau changed his name to Henry David Thoreau (Olson 14). He changed his name because "people called him Henry" (Stanley 16). Henry and his siblings went to same school (Stanley 16). First‚ they went to school called "Concord ’s Public Grammar School" (16). At his school all students for all grades

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    no shoes and the rain and ice of a Cape Town winter near‚ with no place to go. Man is a social being with a purpose. No two persons have the same purpose‚ and no two person’s journey to find that purpose is identical (quoted in Hergenhahn and Olson‚ 1999). That is the beauty of this world – each individual’s life purpose contributes to a fully functioning world. For as many persons as there are in this world‚ there are as many paths to reach this state of self awareness or life contentment. For

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    our fundamental tools (Olson & Hergenhahn‚ 2013). This theory was a first in that it differed from theories relying on stimulus-response bonds. Even today‚ it continues to be a profound influence in the neurosciences‚ as well as in computer research and neural networks. With all of his research concerning the nature of arousal‚ sensory deprivation‚ reinforcement‚ and fear‚ Hebb had an important influence on the study of motivation as well as the study of learning (Olson & Hergenhahn‚ 2013). The

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    Janett Olson was polishing her white‚ ceramic dinner platter‚ nearing the act of flipping off the dining room lanterns‚ when the telephone rang. She lifted the receiver to her ear and heard the blunt voice of Walton Manes establishing himself. “My nephew‚ Arkin‚ had a baseball tournament this weekend and came to visit‚ but is nearing his stay. I heard that you were driving to his hometown of Heathens tomorrow. Would you be so charming‚ and take him back home‚” he stated with an amicable tone. “It

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    This stage summarizes life from the time of birth until two years. “The sensorimotor stage is characterized by the absence of language‚ and note that because it is not an operational stage‚ it is not characterized by thinking as Piaget viewed it” (Olson & Hergenhahn‚ 2013). Piaget’s theory is that children have not yet developed language at this stage and that if objects were not directly in their view‚ than

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    Gendner‚ and Yvon Le Maho. "King penguin population threatened by Southern Ocean warming." PNAS 105.7 (2008): 2493-497. PNAS. National Academy of Sciences‚ 19 Feb. 2008. Web. 7 Dec. 2009. <http://www.pnas.org/>. Patz‚ Jonathan A.‚ and S. H. Olson. "Change and health: global to local influences on disease risk." Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology 100.6 (2006): 535-49. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 7 Dec. 2009. <http://web.ebscohost.com.libdb.dccc.edu/ehost/search?vid=1

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    Also Insulin is a hormone the body uses to move sugar from food or drink into the bloodstream‚ where cells are then able to use sugar for energy (Olson). Then within just 20 minutes‚ blood sugar levels spike and the liver responds to the insulin by turning sugar into fat for storage (Olson). This is also what helps make people overweight and not able to lose weight when they want to. It also helps people get diabetes and can lead to a sugar attack and worse if it is

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    For example‚ in the article written by Dr. Gayle Olson-Raymer‚ it states that “besides the thousands of military and civilian deaths during the battles‚ the war left tens of thousands of orphans‚ widows‚ and disabled” (Olson-Raymer). The Mexican-American War also made cities of Mexico suffer great losses and destruction due to small-arms gunfire and cannons. In addition to these tragedies

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    multiattribute attitude model has been a popular tool for understanding the formation of attitude toward advertisement. According to Fishbein (1975‚ cited in Mitchell & Olson‚ 1981)‚ an attitude is a function of a person’s salient beliefs at a given point in time. Fishbein’s view on attitudes has a strong emphasis on cognition since as Peter and Olson (2005 p. 51) state‚ beliefs are consumer’s subjective understandings of information produced by interpretation processes. In other words‚ beliefs are formed by

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