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Classical Conditioning

1. Conditioning can occur in several situations and some can cause problems for an individual. For example, prisoners of war can be conditioned to fear something they associate with prison camp. Soldiers in Iraq have been said to experience anxiety/fear response when smelling certain smells back home

   • It's thought that we acquire a fear or phobic response in the same way that Pavlov conditioned his dogs to salivate to different stimuli. We learn to associate a neutral stimulus with a fear response