ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the standard methods of Pavlovian conditioning, as well as contemporary research in taste aversion learning, conditioning with drug stimuli, and phobia learning. Tolerance to opiate drugs due to development of opponent conditioned responses Preparedness and the learning of taste aversions and specific fears and phobias. Blocking effect, theories of classical conditioning include the Rescorla-Wagner model, prediction error, stimulus-response association, compensatory response learning, and S-S. The basic principles of extinction, generalization, and second order conditioning are presented, and applications to opiate drug tolerance and evaluative conditioning. Both cognitive and neurobiological factors are included. New advances in the study of extinction to reduce fears and phobias are also included.
