Taste aversions, phobias, systematic desensitisation and aversion therapy

What this note covers

1. Biological preparedness makes some associations easier
2. Taste aversion can form rapidly and across a delay
3. Prepared fears combine predisposition and experience
4. Systematic desensitisation builds graded safe learning
5. Aversion therapy raises substantial ethical questions
6. Evaluate applications through evidence and ethics
7. Comparing conditioning-based applications
8. Explaining rapid taste-aversion learning

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