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AVOIDANCE CONDITIONING OE SKIN POTENTIAL RESPONSES
Author(s) -
Shnidman Susan R.
Publication year - 1969
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.1469-8986.1969.tb02881.x
Subject(s) - habituation , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , classical conditioning , avoidance response , neutral stimulus , conditioning , orienting response , skin conductance , extinction (optical mineralogy) , audiology , stimulus control , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , optics , nicotine , medicine , statistics , physics , mathematics , biomedical engineering
Avoidance of electric shock was used to manipulate skin potential changes elicited by a simple visual stimulus. Experimental and control S s were matched on habituation trials and yoked for 40 acquisition and 10 extinction trials. During acquisition the avoidance S s differentiated between stimulus and non‐stimulus periods more reliably than the controls. During extinction the avoidance group produced significantly more criterion electrodermal responses, with greater magnitude of positive wave components, than the control group. Some of the problems of appropriate control procedures inherent in this design are examined in relation to these results.