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Advice neededHelp me find psychological terms related to associative learning (details in post)
Posted December 30, 2024 by Maplefields in STEM

(Edit: crossposted in women)

Thanks in advance. I need this for personal reasons.

Looking for two terms.

  1. What’s it called when you associate a stimuli (physical object or place) with a mental state? (Is there a more specific term for the example provided below rather than classical conditioning?)

E.g. receiving phone calls = work. Therefore cellphone = work mode. Carrying around a cellphone may make it difficult to relax because can’t switch off work mode. Putting it on airplane mode doesn’t help.

  1. I am looking for a word to describe purposeful restrictive actions taken with physical objects or locations to manage unwanted behaviour and symptoms. (Is there a term with something like “purposeful dissociation”?)

Examples:

  • purposely avoiding using screens or doing homework on your bed (or in your bedroom) to help with sleep to manage insomnia.

  • Purposely uninstalling entertainment apps on your smartphone (keeping it only for calling and texting) to manage phone addiction.

4 comments

istaraMarch 4, 2025

I was disappointed to see the period underwear brand Modibodi having a section on their page for "trans girls" - just the sheer extortion of suggesting a biological boy buy their expensive underwear just to pretend-menstruate once a month.

And yet (happy to be corrected) I don't think there's a special page for "trans boys" - most of whom actually need period products.

PiquedInterestMarch 5, 2025(Edited March 5, 2025)

https://us.modibodi.com/products/mens-brief-moderate-heavy-black

https://us.modibodi.com/collections/all-gender

They do have a men's section for "men" that mentions "period peace" in the product description, and they have an "all genders" section that doesn't have any products list (haha). Where are you seeing a section for transwomen?

istaraMarch 5, 2025

I think they may have changed the pages on their site - it was on the Australian site - and I recall it being in one of the FAQs.

Google throws up this link - but the content has disappeared: https://www.modibodi.com/collections/all-gender (for "all gender" clothing)

And then here's some nonsense on a blog about biological males getting periods: https://www.modibodi.com/blogs/womens/transwomen-period - it has "tips" which include wearing period underwear, even though that page itself acknowledges that "some trans women don’t have uteruses" so won't bleed.

(I'd like to know what trans women do have uteruses, for what it's worth).

vulvapeopleMarch 5, 2025

"some trans women don’t have uteruses"

I'm guessing some dumbass at that company has bought into the TRA lies about uterus implants for women already having been done for TIMs.

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