This study investigated whether contingent-anxious conditioned stimulus termination was more important than temporally yoked termination in producing conservation or enhancement of learned fear. Thirty psychology students, twenty-six females and four males, were administered item thirty-nine from the Fear Survey Schedule and an avoidance test. After in vivo treatment exposure to a harmless snake, post-test measures identical to pretests revealed that contingent-anxious subjects retained significantly more fear (p <.05) on both indexes than temporally yoked subjects. No enhancement was found and only on the subjective measure did contingent-anxious subjects show fear conservation when contrasted with no-treatment controls (p >.05). Implications for "implosive" therapies were discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc663147 |
| Date | 12 1900 |
| Creators | Dial, Miles H. |
| Contributors | Hughes, Howard, 1937-, Cheek, Claude W. |
| Publisher | North Texas State University |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | iv, 46 leaves: ill., Text |
| Rights | Public, Dial, Miles H., Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights |
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