The Gradual Extinction of Transferred Avoidance Stimulus Functions.

We investigated the transfer of conditioned avoidance functions through equivalence relations, and the extinction of these functions, facilitated by verbal prompts. Nine participants acquired three 4-member stimulus equivalence classes using a matching-to-sample procedure. One class stimulus was pai...

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Publicado en:Psychological Record Vol. 64; no. 3; pp. 581 - 600
Autores principales: Garcia-Guerrero, S., Dickins, T., Dickins, D.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2014
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          Department of Psychology, Middlesex University, London NW4 4BT UK
          School of Psychology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZA UK
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        Avoidance (Psychology)
        Avoidance conditioning
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        Equivalence relations (Set theory)
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      ab: We investigated the transfer of conditioned avoidance functions through equivalence relations, and the extinction of these functions, facilitated by verbal prompts. Nine participants acquired three 4-member stimulus equivalence classes using a matching-to-sample procedure. One class stimulus was paired, by classical conditioning, with an aversive tone, which was used in avoidance training of a distinct response. There were two groups: A established the equivalence classes before avoidance training and vice versa for B. During some avoidance trials, each stimulus presentation was followed by the request for a verbal estimation of the probability of the tone. The last trials, run in extinction, included a verbal prompt to corroborate the provided estimation. One participant in each group received no verbal prompts. To negate the necessary reliance on instructions-governed performance, an additional participant completed the experiment with minimal instructions. All participants who had the equivalence training prior to the conditioning showed within-class transfer of avoidance functions, in contrast to the others. All prompted participants who demonstrated transfer showed gradual response extinction, but with a differential gradient. Responding decreased more sharply to the indirectly related stimuli than to the directly paired stimuli. The clinical implications are discussed.
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