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GENERALIZATION OF GSR HABITUATION TO MILD INTRAMODAL STIMULI
Author(s) -
Houck Robert L.,
Mefferd Roy B.
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.tb02900.x
Subject(s) - psychology , expectancy theory , stimulus (psychology) , habituation , intrusion , audiology , cognitive psychology , social psychology , neuroscience , medicine , geochemistry , geology
Subjects habituated to a mild stimulus failed to have GSRs upon the intrusion of a “novel” mild intramodal stimulus. However, an intruding intermodal stimulus of approximately the same intensity caused large GSRs. These results support an explanation based on expectancy or the “neuronal model” of Sokolov, provided suitable allowance is made for changes in specificity of the model as a result of variations in the experimental situation.