A young girl with an alcoholic father might get beatings instead of the love she needs from him. Later in life she is attracted to men who trigger the possible resolution of this unmet need for love. The repetition-compulsion is to try and get the love from the desired object (father), and later from an object representation (teacher, boyfriend, husband).
Object representations are chosen based on resemblance to the original desired object, which includes the alcoholism and propensity to beat, so she continually ends up with alcoholic men that abuse her, even if it takes years for that behavior to manifest.
It is not necessary to understand any of this to benefit from NET. The information is presented here for those who wish to cognitively understand the principles behind NET.
Stimulus generali-zation refers to the tendency for condi-tioned responses NEC to be evoked by any stimulus that is similar to the original condi-tioned stimulus. An example of this is Pavlov's dog salivating to a wide range of bell sounds.
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