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Cardiovascular and electrodermal predictors of SCR habituation among naive and experienced subjects
Author(s) -
Zeiner Arthur R.,
Smith Jamie K.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(197907)35:3<510::aid-jclp2270350307>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - habituation , psychology , skin conductance , heart rate , audiology , orienting response , psychophysiology , reactivity (psychology) , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , blood pressure , medicine , psychiatry , neuroscience , alternative medicine , pathology , biomedical engineering
Fifteen male S s who never had participated in a psychophysiological experiment and 15 male S s who had participated in at least two psychophysiological experiments were tested during baseline and in a habituation study to pure tones. With electrodermal measures (frequency of nonspecific responeses, skin conductance level and number of trials to habituation criterion) the naive group was reliably more reactive. With heart rate, the groups did not differ either on baselines or on reactivity to tones. Future studies that use electrodermal measures for patient evaluation should make certain that their results and interpretations are not confounded by repeated measures on the same S s.