Stimulus Generalization Fear Conditioning

Fear conditioning and stimulus generalization in patients with social anxiety disorder.

Stimulus generalization fear conditioning. Such overgeneralization of fear in pd was found for discrete stimuli. Such successful fear conditioning was apparent in both sad and hc reflected in verbal reports i e valence arousal and contingency ratings and physiological responses i e heart rate and skin conductance response. The subsequently conducted.

Dymond et al 2015. For example imagine that a dog has been conditioned to run to its owner when it hears a whistle. This occurs during the classical conditioning process.

One of the most famous cases of stimulus generalization was the case of little albert in which john watson trained an infant to fear white rats through classical conditioning but the infant. We will use the fear of snakes to illustrate how. Little albert s fear of white furry objects is a great example of how stimulus generalization works in classical conditioning.

While the child had originally been conditioned to fear a white rat his fear also generalized to similar objects. Stimulus generalization and classical conditioning. Stimulus generalization occurs when an organism responds to a stimulus in the same way that it responds to a similar stimulus.

Stimulus generalization can occur in both classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Conditioning and generalization stimuli gss used in the experiment. Generalization was tested by presenting both cs and four morphs of the two faces generalization stimuli gss while ratings heart.

Overgeneralization of conditioned fear responses to stimuli that resemble the original threat eliciting stimulus generalization stimuli gss but have never been paired with aversive events is discussed as another risk factor for pd lissek 2012.