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VASOMOTOR CONDITIONING AND AWARENESS
Author(s) -
Shean Glenn D.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1968.tb02797.x
Subject(s) - psychology , conditioning , classical conditioning , measures of conditioned emotional response , extinction (optical mineralogy) , developmental psychology , vasomotor , generalization , unconditioned stimulus , cognitive psychology , anesthesia , medicine , biology , paleontology , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis
The relationship between conditioning, generalization, and extinction of digital vasoconstriction, and subject awareness of CS‐US sequence was investigated. Subjects were randomly assigned to four groups and within‐group awareness was controlled through the manipulation of instructional parameters. Results indicated that vasomotor conditioning occurred only in those subjects that were judged to be aware of relevant conditioning stimulus relationships. Conditioned responses were found to extinguish almost immediately when subjects were informed of shock cessation. These findings were interpreted as being consistent with an approach which distinguishes between conditioning and relational learning.