Continuing affects us in several ways. Most the time, in ways we are not fully

aware of. One of the more indirect ways is emotionally. I have a close friend, who we'll

call Jordan for reasons of privacy, who seems to be deathly afraid of medicine. While I

find this fear irrational and unrealistic, he finds it extremely real and sometimes

Until recently I saw no real problem with his fear, but a strange thing happened

and I found myself trying to analyze and almost diagnose what had happened. Due to

some sort of food poisoning, he was forced to be taken into the local emergency room.

His reaction to the food he had eaten seemed to be serious and upon arrival, the first thing

the nurse did was place an IV in his arm. Immediately his fear of medicine came into

play. Though the IV was different than the medicine he was normally afraid of, the IV

fell into a category I believe to be a "stimulus generalization." A stimulus generalization

is defined as the occurrence of a learned response not only to the original stimulus, but

conditioning. Jordan is a key example of this. A series of events early in his childhood

both children and adults. Each time he was prescribed with different types of antibiotics

Because of this he was forced to take only liquid antibiotics which caused his initial

medicine is "operant conditioning." Operant conditioning is defined as the basic

taking a pill that they were putting things directly into his blood stream. I was interested

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