Explain the Significance of Symbols in Society, and How Symbols

question 19

Essay

Explain the significance of symbols in society, and how symbols are linked to language, culture, and actions.

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Definitions:

Little Albert

An early 20th-century experiment in psychology demonstrating classical conditioning by inducing a fear response in a young child to previously neutral stimuli.

Extinction

In psychology, the gradual weakening and disappearance of a conditioned response when the conditioned stimulus is no longer paired with the unconditioned stimulus.

Spontaneous Recovery

The reappearance of a previously extinguished conditioned response after a pause, without new learning trials.

Higher-Order Conditioning

A process in classical conditioning by which a stimulus that was previously neutral is paired with a conditioned stimulus to produce the same conditioned response as the original conditioned stimulus.