Effects of multiple contexts and context similarity on the renewal of extinguished conditioned behaviour in an ABA design with humans

Learning and Motivation

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 53-63

  Bandarian Balooch, Siavash ^a   Neumann, David L ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear learning; Pavlovian conditioning; Renewal

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649629547     PISSN: 00239690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lmot.2010.08.008     Document Type: Article

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