ORIENTING AND DEFENSIVE REACTIONS TO PHOBIC AND CONDITIONED FEAR STIMULI IN PHOBICS AND NORMALS
ORIENTING AND DEFENSIVE REACTIONS TO PHOBIC AND CONDITIONED FEAR STIMULI IN PHOBICS AND NORMALS
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-8986.1981.tb02480.x
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
FREDRIKSON, M
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作者:
FREDRIKSON, M
Cardiovascular and electrodermal responses from subjects conditioned to fear-relevant stimuli were compared with responses from phobics selected to fear the same stimuli. In the 1st session of the conditioning group slides of either a snake or a spider were presented. One of these served as a CS+ [conditioned stimulus] reinforced by an electrical shock and the other as CS-, which was never followed by shock. In addition the conditioning group was exposed to 2 neutral pictures. The phobic group viewed the same type of stimuli and were administered some electrical shocks uncorrelated with the slides. In the 2nd session, randomly formed halves of each group were shown slides of a spider and a snake, or 2 neutral ones. There were reliable acquisition effects in the conditioning group with the CS+ evoking larger palmar than dorsal skin conductance responses (SCR); the reverse was true for the CS-. During extinction differential responding to CS+ and CS- was maintained but palmar/dorsal differentiation disappeared. In the phobic group, feared and non-feared cues elicited differential responding with larger palmar SCR for the feared cue only. The conditioning group failed to evidence heart rate differentiation during acquisition when all heart rate responses (HRR) were collapsed into a single trial block (TB). When HRR were grouped into 2 TBS, responses shifted from deceleration to CS+ on TB1 to acceleration on TB2 whereas responses to CS- were unaffected. During extinction, HR exhibited deceleration to both cues but more to CS+ than to CS-. The phobic group''s heart rate accelerated to the feared cue and decelerated to the unfeared cues in both sessions. There was no difference between groups'' responses to neutral cues during the 2nd session. The results partially validate a conditioning analog for specific phobias and the inconsistent aspects are discussed in terms of different coping strategies.