Acquisition, extinction and temporal discrimination in human conditioned avoidance

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 199-208

  Molet, Mikaël ^a   Leconte, Claire ^a   Rosas, Juan M ^b  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Conditioned avoidance; Extinction; Humans; Temporal discrimination

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONDITIONING;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; RECREATION; REINFORCEMENT; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME PERCEPTION; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 33747369667     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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