Cortical inhibition, drive level, and conditioning.
- 1 August 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Vol. 71 (4) , 310-314
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023591
Abstract
The performance of 40 neurotic female patients on finger withdrawal and GSR [galvanic skin response] conditioning to shock was correlated with several personality and objective measures of drive level and cortical inhibition. All correlations between conditioning indices for the 2 responses were positive and significant (p .05) for this group. The correlations of the drive measures with both conditioned responses were all consistent with Spence''s (1958) drive theory although only 3 of these correlations were significant. There was no consistent relationship demonstrated between measures of cortical inhibition and conditioning. The implications of these and other results for the hypothesis of a general factor of conditionability were discussed.This publication has 3 references indexed in Scilit:
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