The use of an unpleasant sound as the unconditional stimulus in aversive Pavlovian conditioning experiments that involve children and adolescent participants

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 622-625

  Neumann, David L ^a   Waters, Allison M ^a   Westbury, H Rae ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REINFORCEMENT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CUES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; STARTLE REACTION;

EID: 48149115541     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.2.622     Document Type: Article

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