Differential effects of expectancy and associative mechanisms on diminution of unconditioned response in electrodermal classical conditioning

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E-ISSN: 1886-144X

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The purpose of this experiment was to study whether conditioned diminution of the unconditioned response (UR) is a phenomenon with an associative basis. Twenty-five subjects received discrimination training with an interval between conditioned stimulus (CS) and unconditioned stimulus (US) of 5 s (differential conditioning group). The same stimuli were presented to another twenty-five subjects, but in an explicitly uncorrelated manner (non-conditioning group). After the acquisition phase, participants of each group were tested with seven presentations of CS+/US and CS-/US. The results of the acquisition phase showed that the UR amplitude was lower in the differential conditioning group than in the non-conditioning group. In the testing phase, CS+/US presentations elicited URs of lower amplitude than CS-/US in the differential conditioning group, but not in the non-conditioning-group. These findings are discussed as a result of expectancy and associative effects of conditioning processes
. El objetivo de este experimento era estudiar si la disminución de la respuesta incondicionada (RI) es un fenómeno de base asociativa. Para ello, veinticinco sujetos recibieron entrenamiento discriminativo, con un intervalo de 5 segundos entre el estímulo condicionado (EC) y el estímulo incondicionado (EI) (grupo de condicionamiento diferencial). Los mismos estímulos fueron presentados a otros veinticinco sujetos, pero de un modo explícitamente descorrelacionado (grupo de no-condicionamiento). Tras la fase de adquisición, los sujetos de cada grupo recibieron siete presentaciones de EC+/EI y de EC-/EI. Los resultados de la fase de adquisición mostraron que la amplitud de la RI era más baja en el grupo de condicionamiento diferencial que en el grupo de no-condicionamiento. En la fase de prueba, las presentaciones EC+/EI suscitaron RIs de menor amplitud que las presentaciones EC-/EI, pero sólo en el grupo de condicionamiento diferencial. Estos hallazgos son discutidos como un resultado de los efectos asociativos y de expectación de los procesos de condicionamiento

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Marcos, J. L., & Redondo, J. (2002). Differential effects of expectancy and associative mechanisms on diminution of unconditioned response in electrodermal classical conditioning. Psicothema, 14(2), 375-381

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This work was supported by a grant from the Xunta de Galicia (XUGA10604B98)

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