Countering Fear Renewal: Changes in the UCS Representation Generalize Across Contexts

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 272-282

  Leer, Arne ^a   Engelhard, Iris M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Extinction; Fear renewal; Human fear conditioning; Return of fear; UCS deflation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANNOYANCE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONING; CONTEXT CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPECTANCY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FEAR; FEAR RENEWAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROBABILITY; REINFORCEMENT; SOUND INTENSITY; STATE TRAIT ANXIETY INVENTORY; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCONDITIONAL STIMULUS; UNCONDITIONAL STIMULUS DEFLATION; UNPLEASANT SENSATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; WHITE NOISE; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONED REFLEX; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; RECURRENCE;

EID: 84922798616     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2014.09.012     Document Type: Article

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