Backward and forward blocking in human electrodermal conditioning: Blocking requires an assumption of outcome additivity

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B: Comparative and Physiological Psychology

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 311-329

  Mitchell, Chris J ^a   Lovibond, Peter F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); JUDGMENT; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0036778364     PISSN: 02724995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02724990244000025     Document Type: Article

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