Reciprocal inhibition of a laboratory conditioned fear |
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Authors: | A Bellack |
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Institution: | The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Electric shock was used to establish a conditioned fear in 48 college Ss, who then received either deep muscle relaxation training, cognitive relaxation training or anxiety relief conditioning. Relaxation was conditioned to a slide of the word NOW and the aversive stimulus was a pure red slide. The compound stimulus NOW on a red background was presented to generate counterconditioning, followed by a re-presentation of pure red as a measure of transfer. GSR and Blood Volume Pulse were recorded for evaluation of the fear reduction generated by each training procedure. All group differences were non-significant. The two relaxation procedures were equally effective, while the Anxiety Relief group manifested consistently smaller response-reduction. Implications and the usefulness of the paradigm were discussed. |
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Keywords: | Requests for reprints should be sent to Alan Bellack Department of Psychology The University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pa 15213 U S A |
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