Erika Rich
“Phobia’s and Addiction’s Relating to Classical and Operant Conditioning”
June 7, 2010
Corey Vigdor
Phobia’s with Classical Conditioning
A phobia can be developed in classical conditioning when you produce a fear tactic with it. Like the example with Little Albert. At the age he was he wasn’t afraid of the rabbit, dog, or any of the other things they put in front of him. When they kept hitting the pole behind him scaring him over and over he then associated that scary sound with the object in front of him. He also turned on anything that looked like that object. I don’t think that you are born with a phobia of anything. You have to have some sort of negative contact with a certain something to have it develop. Now on the other hand you do have those people that worry over everything and just hearing about something that is scary will trigger with them the feeling of a phobia. I know that I get scared of things that I hear about. Things like a robbery, or the end of the world, or car accidents. I fear what has never happened to me but I get scared that one day what if it does.
When watch scary movies I start to feel that I am in the movie and that is my life. It takes me a long time to tell myself that everything is okay and that it is not …show more content…
They are addictions and can be developed with the operant conditioning through use of time. Like I have said before people like what they like and they try it see the reward that it brings to them and they will continue to do it. I only went on a cruise one time in my life. It was just a weekend cruise. My husband and I went in the summer of 2007. I have only been on one. I am ADDICTED!!! I do not understand why everyone is not on a cruise right now? I cannot wait until I can go back on another cruise. If you haven’t been, do yourself a favor and