Journal article
Common Processes May Contribute to Extinction and Habituation
The Journal of general psychology, Vol.129(4), pp.364-400
10/01/2002
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/113796
PMID: 12494990
Abstract
Psychologists routinely attribute the characteristics of conditioned behavior to complicated cognitive processes. For example, many of the characteristics of behavior undergoing extinction have been attributed to retrieval from memory. The authors argue that these characteristics may result from the simpler process of habituation. In particular, conditioned responding may decrease during extinction partially because habituation occurs to the stimuli that control responding when those stimuli are presented repeatedly or for a prolonged time (e.g., the experimental context, the conditioned stimulus in classical conditioning). This idea is parsimonious, has face validity, and evokes only processes that are well established by other evidence. In addition, behavior undergoing extinction shows 12 of the fundamental properties of behavior undergoing habituation. However, this model probably cannot provide a complete theory of extinction. It provides no obvious explanation for some of the other characteristics of extinguished behavior.
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- Title
- Common Processes May Contribute to Extinction and Habituation
- Creators
- Frances K McSweeney - Department of Psychology , Washington State UniversitySamantha Swindell - Department of Psychology , Washington State University
- Publication Details
- The Journal of general psychology, Vol.129(4), pp.364-400
- Academic Unit
- Arts and Sciences, College of; Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Group
- Identifiers
- 99900547538201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article