Resistance to Extinction of Conditioned Electrodermal Responses
A Study of the Incubation Fear Hypothesis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13653259 |
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| Authors | Bonifacio Sandín (0000-0001-7206-6410, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, corresponding author), Paloma Chorot (0000-0002-5442-2917, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-46 |
| Publication date | 2002-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.2002.91.1.37 |
| PMID | 12353802 |
| OpenAlex | W1972857975 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 26 |
In the present study we examined Eysenck's incubation hypothesis of fear. Probability of skin conductance response (SCR) was analyzed for a sample of 79 undergraduate women, ranging in age from 18 to 25 years. Different groups of participants were conditioned to two levels of unconditioned stimuli (UCS) intensity and presented to three levels of unreinforced conditioned stimuli (CS) exposures (extinction phase) in a delay differential conditioning paradigm. The CSs were fear-relevant slides (snakes and spiders) and the UCSs were aversive tones. Analysis did not show a clear incubation effect; instead an increased resistance to extinction of SCR probability in association to the high-UCS and the short unreinforced CS presentation was evident. Findings support partially Eysenck's incubation theory of fear/anxiety
Anxiety · Audiology · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Fear conditioning · Incubation · Psychiatry · Skin conductance · Statistics · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes · Chemistry · Medicine · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Mental Health Research Topics · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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