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Preparedness (learning)

In psychology, preparedness is a concept developed to explain why certain associations are learned more readily than others. For example, phobias related to survival, such as snakes, spiders, and heights, are much more common and much easier to induce in the laboratory than other kinds of fears. According to Martin Seligman, this is a result of our…

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Arne ÖhmanAversiveConditioned fear responsesConsciouslyAutomatically
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LearnedPhobiasFearsMartin SeligmanEvolutionary
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Preparedness (learning)

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of flowersinstance ofFear-relevant photographs such as of snakes and spiders were used as conditioned stimuli and fear-irrelevant photographs0.80text
mushrooms were used as controlsinstance ofFear-relevant photographs such as of snakes and spiders were used as conditioned stimuli and fear-irrelevant photographs0.80text
Davey’s concern the proximate mechanisms through which such fears are acquiredinstance ofwhereas cognitive accounts0.80text
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