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UCS revaluation and conditioning models of acquired fears
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Recent developments in the study of Pavlovian conditioning in humans have suggested that the strength of a conditioned response (CR) is affected not only by associative processes that link the conditioned stimulus (CS) with the unconditioned stimulus (UCS), but also by processes which lead the individual to revalue the UCS itself. These latter processes can frequently lead to dramatic changes in CR strength independently of any experience with the CS-UCS contingency. This paper discusses a number of ways in which UCS revaluation can be effected in human subjects, and discusses their implications for conditioning models of acquired fears.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Davey, G. C. L.
- Affiliations
- City, University of London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Davey, Graham C.L.
- ORCID
- Davey, Graham C.L.
- Venue
- Behaviour Research and Therapy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1989
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 521-528
- ISSN
- 0005-7967 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2083419193
- Cited by
- 132
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 5 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 5 · 2012: 3
- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Behaviour Research and Therapy (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
- Keywords
- classical conditioning, conditioned stimulus, unconditioned stimulus, fear acquisition, human conditioning
- MeSH terms
- Arousal, Association Learning, Conditioning, Classical, Fear, Humans, Learning
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