A FURTHER ATTEMPT AT DELAYED GSR CONDITIONING

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A delayed conditioning schedule was employed so that latency and frequency changes of all GSRs occurring in the CS‐UCS interval could be followed. Two experimental groups received initial (simultaneous) pairings of CS–UCS, and four control groups received initial CS series only, prior to the introduction of the delayed series.There was no evidence of an increase in latency of GSRs over trials, and only a slight increase in frequency over the first few trials in the control groups; this latter effect was attributed to the disinhibiting or novel effect of changing from one stimulus series to another, and not to acquisition of a conditioned response. It was concluded that no gradual increase of CR strength over trials was demonstrated.Highly significant correlations were obtained between measures of skin resistance responsiveness, such as spontaneous and orienting responses; this suggests that many so‐called measures of GSR conditioning are probably related to some factor such as response sensitivity.

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