Blocked and overshadowed stimuli are weakened in their ability to serve as blockers and second-order reinforcers in Pavlovian fear conditioning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 45-67

  Rauhut, Anthony S ^a   McPhee, Janice E ^a   Ayres, John J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; APPETITE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; FEAR; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0032611356     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.25.1.45     Document Type: Article

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