S-R Associations, Their Extinction, and Recovery in an Animal Model of Anxiety: A New Associative Account of Phobias Without Recall of Original Trauma

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 153-169

  Laborda, Mario A ^a   Miller, Ralph R ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOBIA; RAT; RECALL; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 79954603161     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2010.06.002     Document Type: Article

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