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Operant Conditioning of Cardiac Function: A Status Report
Author(s) -
Engel Bernard T.
Publication year - 1972
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.1469-8986.1972.tb00751.x
Subject(s) - psychology , operant conditioning , conditioning , cognitive psychology , function (biology) , neuroscience , developmental psychology , social psychology , reinforcement , statistics , mathematics , evolutionary biology , biology
The mechanisms of operant conditioning of cardiac function can be analyzed in terms of cardiodynamics, hemodynamics, neural regulations, and psychological regulations. These separate analyses help to suggest a number of experimental hypotheses. Analyses of data from early and late phases of conditioning show that performance at these two stages of training is different: Analyses of acquisition mechanisms must come from the early phase of training, however, analyses of control mechanisms should probably be derived from chronic studies.