The renewal of extinguished conditioned fear with fear-relevant and fear-irrelevant stimuli by a context change after extinction

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 188-206

  Neumann, David L ^a   Longbottom, Paula L ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditioned fear; Context; Extinction; Fear renewal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; CONDITIONING; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; REINFORCEMENT; SKIN CONDUCTANCE; SNAKE; SPIDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; ATTENTION; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOBIC DISORDERS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 38649132580     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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