Resistance to extinction in evaluative conditioning

Autor: Paul Eelen, Geert Francken, Bram Vervliet, Armand De Clercq, Debora Vansteenwegen
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes. 32:71-79
ISSN: 1939-2184
0097-7403
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.32.1.71
Popis: A well-demonstrated phenomenon in traditional Pavlovian conditioning research with humans is that of experimental extinction. In contrast, human evaluative conditioning research suggests that evaluative learning shows marked resistance to extinction. Here, the authors replicate both findings concurrently. Two differential fear conditioning experiments with an electrocutaneous stimulus as the unconditioned stimulus evidenced (a) sensitivity to extinction using an autonomic skin-conductance measure and (b) complete resistance to extinction using an affective-priming measure. The results corroborate the idea that evaluative conditioning is more resistant to extinction than is expectancy learning (F. Baeyens, P. Eelen, & G. Crombez, 1995).
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