Differential Effects of Adding and Removing Components of a Context on the Generalization of Conditional Freezing

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 78-83

  González, Felisa ^a,c   Quinn, Jennifer J ^b   Fanselow, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Fac Psicol Inst Neurociencias F   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; IMMOBILIZATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; FEAR; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 85047694839     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.29.1.78     Document Type: Article

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