Anxiety and strength of the UCS as determiners of the amount of eyelid conditioning.
- 1 January 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 42 (3) , 183-188
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0061580
Abstract
Groups of anxious and non-anxious subjects were chosen on the basis of extreme scores on a test of manifest anxiety, and were compared with respect to development of the conditioned eyelid response. The test group consisted of 574 subjects who were exposed to 50 paired presentations of an increase in illumination and an air puff delivered to the external canthus of the right eye (the UCS). Results indicate that the anxious subgroups were consistently superior to the corresponding non-anxious groups in amount of conditioning throughout the trials, this difference being significant statistically.Keywords
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- The relationship of anxiety to the conditioned eyelid response.Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1951