The Three Arousal Model: Implications of Gray's Two‐Factor Learning Theory for Heart Rate, Electrodermal Activity, and Psychopathy

Psychophysiology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1980, Pages 87-104

  Fowles, Don C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Anxiety; Appetitive stimuli; Arousal; Aversive stimuli; Barbiturates; Behavioral inhibition system; Cardiac somatic coupling; Coping; Electrodermal activity; Heart rate; Hyperactivity; Incentive; Learning theory; Limbic system; Minor tranquilizers; Psychopathy; Reticular formation

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FRUSTRATION; HEART; HEART RATE; PSYCHOPATHY;

ANIMAL; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ANXIETY; AROUSAL; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CUES; EXTINCTION (PSYCHOLOGY); GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ORIENTATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PUNISHMENT; RETICULAR FORMATION; REWARD; SOCIALIZATION; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0018835848     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: 14698986     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1980.tb00117.x     Document Type: Article

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