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    with taste aversion occurred when I went to EFSC to get my AA. I ate coleslaw and grapes prior to a night class and later on during the class I had an extremely bad migraine to the point where I could barely pay attention to what my professor was saying which led to me vomiting in the restroom. I didn’t have coleslaw ever since. UCS -> UCR....UCS/CS ->UCR/CR....CS -> CR Headache and Vomit -> ill… headache and vomit/coleslaw -> ill/ill… coleslaw -> ill. Based on classical conditioning‚ I paired coleslaw

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    The Little Albert Experiment was one of the most well known fear conditioning experiments. John B Watson showed that not only can humans be classically conditioned‚ but also furthered Pavlov’s research by show that emotions can be classically conditioned. Watson exposed a nine-month-old baby to various white stimuli such as: rats‚ rabbits‚ monkeys‚ etc. He observed that the child showed no fear towards the stimuli‚ but then whenever the child was exposed to the white stimuli followed by a loud noise

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    Alcohol Facts and statistics ( www.niaaa.nih.gov-2012 ) Global Burden of alcohol abuse‚ In 2012‚ 3.3 million deaths‚ or 5.9 percent of all global deaths (7.6 percent for men and 4 percent for women)‚ were attributable to alcohol consumption.. Alcohol contributes to over 200 diseases and injury-related health conditions‚ most notably alcohol dependence‚ liver cirrhosis‚ cancers‚ and injuries. In 2012‚ alcohol accounted for 5.1 percent of disability adjusted life years (DALYs) worldwide. Globally‚

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    Classical conditioning is defined as a simple type of learning behavior in which a neutral stimulus that would normally not elicit a response can evoke an involuntary response when paired with a stimulus that does elicit a response in an organism (Rathus‚ 112). The theory of classical conditioning accidentally discovered by Ivan Pavlov when he began researching dog’s salivation reflexes to meat powder stimuli. Classical conditioning consists of five main principles‚ the unconditioned stimulus (UCS)

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    How much alcohol do teens use? Alcohol is the most frequently used drug by teenagers in the United States. About half of junior high and senior high school students drink alcohol on a monthly basis‚ and 14% of teens have been intoxicated at least once in the past year. Nearly 8% of teens who drink say they drink at least five or more alcoholic drinks in a row (binge drink). What are the dangerous effects of alcohol use in teens? Just a few of the many dangerous effects of alcohol use in teens

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    Deangelo Whitfield TR 11 Drug Abuse Drug abuse is a big problem in the United States which causes short term‚ long term and financial problems for many. I. Introduction A. The title of my speech is drug abuse and I’m here to inform the problems of drugs. B. It is important to know the problems of drugs so you know not to try them or let anyone you know tries any.

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    Module 13 /Classical Conditioning Module 13 /Pavlov Demonstrates Conditioning in Dogs My Story of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder It is a continuous challenge living with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)‚ and I’ve suffered from it for most of my life. I can look back now and gently laugh at all the people who thought I had the perfect life. I was young‚ beautiful‚ and talented‚ but unbeknownst to them‚ I was terrorized by an undiagnosed debilitating mental illness. Having been properly diagnosed

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    effects of drug abuse amongst the youth  A drug can be said to be any substance used in medicine. It can also be said to be any substance taken by some people to get a certain effect‚ such as happiness and excitement. A drug addict is said to be someone whose life has become dependent on drugs‚ hence drug abuse. Peer pressure; - youth associates themselves with different types of people‚ otherwise known as friends. Through the pressure from these friends they tend to have a taste of these drugs and once

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    Effects of Drug Abuse during Pregnancy When a woman becomes pregnant‚ it is vital to her baby ’s health that she leads a healthy life. For a pregnant woman‚ substance abuse is twice as dangerous. Any drug use while pregnant has dangerous effects. First‚ drugs may harm her own health‚ which interferes with her ability to support the pregnancy. Second‚ some drugs can directly impair prenatal development. During pregnancy‚ virtually all drugs pose a danger. Even legal substances‚ such as alcohol‚ tobacco

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    Different authors have different perspectives on classical conditioning‚ yet they agree on one aspect which is common‚ that it is a natural sequence of events; an unconscious‚ uncontrolled‚ and unlearned relationship. Comer (2004) defines classical conditioning as a process of learning by temporal association in which two events that repeatedly occur close together in time become fused in a person ’s mind and produce the same response. Conditioned stimulus or CS‚ comes to signal the occurrence of

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