Conclusions

• It is easy to create a fear response. Just two sessions a week was enough to learn a conditioned emotional response. However, the persistence of early conditioned responses would only be found in persons who are ‘constitutionally inferior’.
• Conditioned responses are generalised to similar stimuli.
• We can use the findings for treatment using Aversion Therapy.
• However, we cannot know from this study if it is possible to decondition fears.