Effects of Ucs Intensity and Duration of Exposure of Nonreinforced Cs on Conditioned Electrodermal Responses
An Experimental Analysis of the Incubation Theory of Anxiety
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13655523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paloma Chorot (0000-0002-5442-2917, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, corresponding author), Bonifacio Sandín (0000-0001-7206-6410) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 73 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 931-941 |
| Publication date | 1993-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1993.73.3.931 |
| PMID | 8302996 |
| OpenAlex | W1970400594 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 24 |
Eysenck's incubation theory of fear or anxiety was examined in a human Pavlovian conditioning experiment with skin-conductance responses as the dependent variable. The conditioned stimuli (CSs) were fear-relevant slides (snakes and spiders) and the unconditioned stimuli (UCSs) were aversive tones. Different groups of subjects were presented two tone intensities during the acquisition phase and three durations of nonreinforced CS (extinction phase) in a delay differential conditioning paradigm. Resistance to extinction of conditioned skin-conductance responses (conditioned fear responses) exhibited was largest for high intensity of tone and short presentations of the nonreinforced CS (CS+presented alone). The result tends to support Eysenck's incubation theory of anxiety
Anxiety · Audiology · Classical conditioning · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Extinction (optical mineralogy · Fear conditioning · Incubation · Psychiatry · Skin conductance · Chemistry · EEG and Brain-Computer Interfaces · Medicine · Memory and Neural Mechanisms · Neural dynamics and brain function · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2002 - 2002 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |