Psychology / Unit 5 Psych 0528 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Labeling Anticipatory Nausea
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The idea
In anticipatory nausea, the drug is the unconditioned stimulus and the treatment room becomes the conditioned stimulus.
In practice
A patient feels sick in the car park, hours before any drug is administered.
Where people slip
This conditioning is unusually resistant to extinction, which is why it persists across a long treatment course.
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