CONTEXTUAL ASSOCIATIONS IN TRACE CONDITIONING
CONTEXTUAL ASSOCIATIONS IN TRACE CONDITIONING
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10.3758/bf03209784
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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MARLIN, NA
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MARLIN, NA
Rats were given tone-footshock pairings with a 0-, 10-, or 30-s trace interval between tone offset and shock onset. Half the rats within each trace interval were tested for their conditioned fear of the tone through a lick suppression procedure; the remaining rats were evaluated for their fear of the background or contextual cues through their avoidance of the compartment in which conditioning had occurred. Less conditioning was observed to the tone with increasing trace intervals. However, conditioned fear of the context increased with increases in the trace duration. The ability of the more predictive stimulus, the tone, to overshadow the contextual cues was determined by the tone''s temporal contiguity with the footshock. The need to incorporate temporal parameters within current theories of conditioning is discussed.