Stress-induced recovery of fears and phobias.
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Stress-induced recovery of fears and phobias.
Accounts of human fears and phobias based on current conditioning models using data from adults are examined and found wanting. Instead, the characteristics of human phobias resemble the kind of learning found during the amnesic period of infancy. As certain neural systems mature, conditioning begins to exhibit adult characteristics: context dependency, sharp generalization, and rapid extinctio...
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عنوان ژورنال: Psychological Review
سال: 1985
ISSN: 1939-1471,0033-295X
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295x.92.4.512