Stimulus intensity effects and second-order response acquisition in Pavlovian fear conditioning
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Stephen Michael Moyer (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Donald G. Wildemann
Abstract: The present series of studies was designed to a) determine if, following Pavlovian conditioning of a fear response to a particular conditioned stimulus (CS) intensity, an increase or decrease in the CS intensity would result in changes in the fear response (Experiment 1); b) test Hull's (1943) theory that, in second-order conditioning, the second-order CS becomes associated with the response evoked by the first-order CS (Experiment 2); and c) attempt to replicate Rizely and Rescorla's (1972) finding that, following second-order conditioning, a second-order CS continues to evoke a conditioned response even after the conditioned response to the first-order CS has been extinguished (Experiment 3).
Stimulus intensity effects and second-order response acquisition in Pavlovian fear conditioning
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1976
- Subjects
- Conditioned response
- Extinction (Psychology)
- Classical conditioning