In psychology, preparedness is a concept developed to explain why certain associations are learned more readily than others. Phobias related to survival, such as fears of snakes, spiders or heights, are far more common and far easier to induce experimentally than other kinds of fears. Martin Seligman attributed this to evolutionary history, arguing that organisms which learned to fear environmental threats more quickly had a survival and reproductive advantage, so that an innate predisposition to fear such threats became an adaptive human trait.
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First Described YearSeligman (1971) proposed that the ease with which associations are learned falls along a continuum. (w-bbfill-psychology6-0926) Classification
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a concept developed to explain why certain associations are learned more readily than others
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Seligman (1971) proposed that the ease with which associations are learned falls along a continuum.
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