In psychology, preparedness refers to an organism’s readiness or predisposition to be conditioned in certain ways due to its evolutionary history.
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An extreme or irrational fear of something specific which often leads to avoidance behavior.
Learned response to previously neutral but now conditioned stimulus.
A theoretical approach in social and natural sciences that examines psychological traits such as perception, memory, and language from an evolutionary perspective.