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SUPPRESSION OF THE UCR IN HUMAN EYELID CONDITIONING AS A FUNCTION OF CS INTENSITY
Author(s) -
FISHBEIN HAROLD D.,
LEVY STUART
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1968.tb01140.x
Subject(s) - conditioning , psychology , intensity (physics) , audiology , uncorrelated , developmental psychology , statistics , optics , mathematics , medicine , physics
Subjects were run in an eyelid conditioning experiment with CS intensity as the independent variable. Strength of conditioning was assessed by measures of UCR suppression and percentage CRs. It was found that increases in CS intensity produced increases in both percentage CRs and UCR suppression. This supported the view that UCR suppression was an associative process. In that, across groups, increases in percentage CRs were accompanied by increases in UCR suppression and, within groups, the two measures were uncorrelated, it was suggested that inhibition of delay was not the underlying mechanism of UCR suppression.