Learning to avoid spiders: Fear predicts performance, not competence
| Autor: | Eni S. Becker, Xijia Luo, Mike Rinck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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050103 clinical psychology Adolescent Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 050105 experimental psychology Experimental Psychopathology and Treatment Young Adult Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Avoidance learning Developmental and Educational Psychology Avoidance Learning Animals Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Competence (human resources) Spider Lift (data mining) 05 social sciences Uncertainty Spiders Fear Phobic Disorders Female Immersive virtual environment Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | Cognition & Emotion, 32, 6, pp. 1291-1303 Cognition & Emotion, 32, 1291-1303 |
| ISSN: | 0269-9931 |
| Popis: | Contains fulltext : 194022.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) We used an immersive virtual environment to examine avoidance learning in spider-fearful participants. In 3 experiments, participants were asked to repeatedly lift one of 3 virtual boxes, under which either a toy car or a spider appeared and then approached the participant. Participants were not told that the probability of encountering a spider differed across boxes. When the difference was large (Exps. 1 and 2), spider-fearfuls learned to avoid spiders by lifting the few-spiders-box more often and the many-spiders-box less often than non-fearful controls did. However, they hardly managed to do so when the probability differences were small (Exp. 3), and they did not escape from threat more quickly (Exp. 2). In contrast to the observed performance differences, spider-fearfuls and non-fearfuls showed equal competence, that is comparable post-experimental knowledge about the probability to encounter spiders under the 3 boxes. The limitations and implications of the present study are discussed. 13 p. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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