Abstract:Near ly 100 y ago, Ivan Pavlov presented the most famous example of classic conditioning, which occurs when a conditioned stimulus is paired with an unconditioned stimulus. Usually, the conditioned stimulus is a neutral (e.g., the sound of a tuning fork) and the unconditioned stimulus is biologically potent (e.g., food) and produces an unconditioned response (e.g., salivation). In anxiety disorders, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), a trauma can be considered an unconditioned stimulus; this type of… Show more
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