Evidence for retarded extinction of aversive learning in anxious children

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1491-1502

  Liberman, Lisa C ^a   Lipp, Ottmar V ^a   Spence, Susan H ^a   March, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blink startle; Child anxiety; Electrodermal responses; Fear learning

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EYELID REFLEX; FACILITATION; FEAR; FEMALE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REINFORCEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TRAINING;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BLINKING; CHILD; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 33748801001     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.11.004     Document Type: Article

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