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Any Psychologist here?

I answered a question and earned a little, but asker didn't rate my answer, I wonder if my viewpoint is relevant?

the topic was movie violence in relation to classical conditioning,

A child exhibits a certain behavior like fear when presented a certain stimulus over and over again. The mind will be conditioned to respond to the stimulus when he experiences it repeatedly. Hence, behavior can be learned. A child might associate darkness as scary or dangerous after watching movies that depicts violence which always occurs at nighttime.

Hence the concepts made by psychologists imply that behavior can be learned and conditioned.
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Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
Yes it is like building a stress response but these connections, how strong they are, how deep they go and how they connect to what they connect to can get quite complicated and does not always work in the simplistic way we might thing. I noticed that I lost my fear of the things I was afraid of in early life.
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@Subsumedpat how did you manage to lose the fear?
Subsumedpat · 36-40, M
@SW-User I did not do anything it just went away as I got older, I speculate that when I was little my fears seemed rational to me at the time but as I got older I just naturally understood that there were no real connections and they went away. No doubt that serious trauma would override that and you would have a PTSD connection to that kind of trauma that would not easily go away.