Effects of conditioned stimulus presentation on diminution of the unconditioned response in aversive classical conditioning

Biological Psychology

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 89-102

  Marcos, José L ^a   Redondo, Jaime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Conditioned diminution; Skin conductance response (SCR)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ADULT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 0033054759     PISSN: 03010511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-0511(99)00007-1     Document Type: Article

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