4.5 Applying Learning

4.5 Applying Learning

1. Biofeedback

   • operant technique that teaches people to gain voluntary control over bodily processes like heart rate and blood pressure

2. Emotional Learning

   • Teaching children how to overcome and manage emotions such as fear, hatred, anger and anxiety

3. Taste Aversion

   • After throwing up a food, it becomes a warning stimulus for getting sick.

4. Avoidance Behavior

5. Avoidance Conditioning

6. Superstitious Behavior

7. Learned helplessness

   • a mental state that arises in an organism that believes punishment is inescapable