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Look up Little Albert or John B Watson

Also Ivan Palov.

You could always use similarity to describe a word to someone. Like I'm going to fracture your neck. If someone doesn't know what fracture means, then say break or split, or anything that means the same thing.

@Ruler of Inferno thanks for the tips. I was more looking for the concept of conditioning, specifically conditioning applied to our everyday lives, but thanks regardless.


@[34044:@BunnyBear0626] I´m afraid the problem isn´t understanding the words, but understanding the concept and it´s validity. I don´t want it to sound like I´m spewing meaningless jargon at them when I defend myself against these nearly baseless accusations which probably stained my reputation among those involved already.

Conditioning is basically training somebody to do something subconsciously.


Such as with the experiment with the dog. When you give the dog food, it salivates. If you give the dog food and ring a bell each time, it will salivates. Conditioning is doing that enough times in which what happens is that you ring the bell, there is no food, but the dog salivates anyway.

@[32986:@ApfelSeine] do you have anything for me? You seem to have a pretty nice input to give when it comes to psychology matters

@[32986:@ApfelSeine] hmmm... then I may be using the wrong word.


What do you call the phenomenon by which people´s expectations affect what they actually feel/experience/think?

I don't know if this applies, but it sounds like this scenario, which is also conditioning.


There was a psychology teacher who always lectured behind the podium. He wanted to keep his class involved and focused. When the man walked away from the podium to the other side of his lecture area, the students would smile and look at him. When he went back to the podium, they would give him deadpan expressions and look away. By the end of the year, he only really stood away from the podium.

I don´t think that helps much either.


To give you my concrete situation, they claim they hear a sound and then smell something terrible, several times in class. I know for a fact that I am not doing anything, though there was one I time I did fart in class, since I had eaten some terrible food and have esophagus problems (it pulls and retains gas and food from my stomach): But that one time, I admitted it. However, since then, he´s given these nonstop nonsensical accusations, and I believe it has to do with that one time, and now every time he hears one of those sounds, he starts paying more attention to smells or something similar: basically, he hears a sound that minimally reassembles a fart, and starts subconsciously searching for the smell, ending up confusing any slightly less pleasant one with a fart.


That´s the sort of impression I get from this problem anyway. I´m just trying to make sure I have the right word and description for it.

If it helps there are two kinds of conditioning, classical is where a stimulus is paired to another previously neutral stimulus (think Pavlov and little Albert) and operant conditioning where behaviour is more or less likely to occur based on consequences, rewards and punishments (the lecturer scenario above)


social psychology isnt isn't so much my wheel house but hopefully that's useful!

@[23770:@Lemoncakes] once again, thanks for the input, but I still don´t think that´s the scenario. Of course, I´m no expert, so do do me a favor and read the description I put right above your reply, in case I´m wrong.

@Idea sorry, I'm slow at typing on my tablet! It sounds like it could be somethings along the lines of confirmation bias, in a way.. ?