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Need Advice or SupportHelp me find psychological terms related to associative learning (details in post)
Posted December 30, 2024 by Maplefields 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 manage insomnia.

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

4 comments

velvetpawsBig timeJanuary 5, 2025

For number one, state-dependent learning

LobselVithDecember 30, 2024

I believe the first phenomenon is called "contextual priming".

As for the second one, I'm not aware of a word for it, but it could be called something like "intentional/purpuseful/deliberate/selective restriction/regulation".

There is something I know of that's called "stimulus control", but I don't know if it 100% fits what you're looking for.

Maplefields [OP]December 30, 2024

Thank you. I will Google those terms and your keywords. Hopefully they are what I’m looking for.

LobselVithDecember 30, 2024

I hope you'll be able to find what you need!

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