Building Up Hopes and Shattering Them for No Acceptable Reason

question 58

True/False

Building up hopes and shattering them for no acceptable reason is an example of gaslighting.

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Definitions:

Stimulus Generalization

A learning process in which a response to one stimulus becomes associated with other similar stimuli, leading to a similar response.

Classical Conditioning

A learning process in which a biologically potent stimulus is paired with a previously neutral stimulus to elicit a conditioned response.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a specific stimulus that results from repeated exposure to that stimulus paired with a particular response.

Classical Conditioning

A learning paradigm wherein two stimuli are continuously paired together; initially, the response comes from the second stimulus, but later, the first stimulus can independently provoke the response.