Anticipatory and Preparatory Electrodermal Behavior in Paired Stimulation Situations

Grings, William W.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-8986.1969.tb02862.x

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“…Nevertheless, most EDRs show an overlapping form in the CS-UCS interval as depicted in the right-hand panel of Fig. 3.2 (Grings, 1969). In the analysis and interpretation of those EDRs the question arises to what extent these single components may be separated (Sect.…”

Section: Components Of Edr Conditioningmentioning

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Electrodermal Activity

Boucsein

2012

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except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights.Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Foreword to the Second EditionAs noted by David Lykken in the foreword to the first edition of this book, electrodermal activity was observed for the first time in Germany. A quartercentury later the scientific study of psychology also originated in Germany. Over time, however, the focus of psychological research, including the then new field of psychophysiology, shifted to the United States and Great Britain. This trend to the dominance of the United States and Great Britain was prolonged by the devastation of World War II and its aftermath in Germany (and elsewhere in continental Europe). Slowly at first and then more rapidly, German psychological science, including psychophysiology, recovered. For several decades German psychophysiologists have been a major force in psychophysiology. With the publication of the first English edition of this book in 1992, it became essential for electrodermal researchers worldwide again to learn from our German colleagues.When I came into psychophysiology in the mid-1960s, electrodermal activity was the most common system studied. Because of its popularity, a large literature had emerged on the physiological mechanisms producing these changes in the electrical properties of the skin and on the best methodology for recording them. Major reviews and/or chapters had been published or soon were to be published by Peter Venables and Irene Martin, Robert Edelberg, and David Lykken. Later reviews and articles were published by Venables and Margaret Christie, and by me. A chapter in 1990 by Michael Dawson, Anne Schell, and Diane Filion was especially noteworthy for its coverage of the psychological applications of electrodermal measures.Note that all these publications were journal articles and chapters and that most of them focused almost entirely on mechanisms and methodology. The publication of this book, first in German and then in English, provided the first book on electrodermal activity, and one that extensively covers psychological applications as well as mechanisms and methodology. Again to quote David Lykken back in 1992, "The return of German scholarship to what I shall loftily call the high table of psychophysiology is exemplified by this fine book, the most comprehensive treatise on the electrodermal system to appear in any language . . ." I completely agree with v that evaluation. Professor Boucsein's outstanding scholarship has produced a book of such breadth of coverage ...

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Section: Components Of Edr Conditioningmentioning

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“…The observation of an EDR amp. following an unpredictable electric shock as being higher when compared to a predictable one has been interpreted as OR reinstatement by Grings (1969) as well as by Furedy and Klajner (1974), because the less predictable a stimulus the greater is its novelty (Sect. 3.1.1.1).…”

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Electrodermal Activity

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2012

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“…The fact that SC measures are viewed as primary indicators of conditioning is indicated by the fact that they are frequently used to confirm the presence of conditioning in fMRI studies of classical conditioning (Büchel & Dolan, 2000). SC fear conditioning in humans has been traditionally delineated by three separate components of the conditioned fear response (referred to as the first interval response, the second interval response, and the third interval response), a separation achieved by lengthening the CS (conditioned stimulus)–UCS (unconditioned stimulus) interval in order to allow sufficient time to assess separable SC components (Grings, 1969; Prokasy & Ebel, 1967). As illustrated in Figure 1, the first interval response occurs shortly following the onset of the CS, the second interval response begins shortly preceding the onset of the UCS, and the third interval response begins shortly following the omission of the UCS on a non‐reinforced trial (for further descriptions and theoretical interpretations, see Dawson & Schell, 1987; Öhman, 1983).…”

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The development of skin conductance fear conditioning in children from ages 3 to 8 years

Gao

Raine

Venables

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Developmental Science

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Although fear conditioning is an important psychological construct implicated in behavioral and emotional problems little is known about how it develops in early childhood. Using a differential, partial reinforcement conditioning paradigm, this longitudinal study assessed skin conductance conditioned responses in 200 children at ages 3, 4, 5, 6, and 8 years. Results demonstrated that in both boys and girls: (1) fear conditioning increased across age, particularly from ages 5 to 6 years, (2) the three components of skin conductance fear conditioning that reflect different degrees of automatic and controlled cognitive processes exhibited different developmental profiles, and (3) individual differences in arousal, orienting, and the unconditioned response were associated with individual differences in conditioning, with the influence of orienting increasing at later ages. This first longitudinal study of the development of skin conductance fear conditioning in children both demonstrates that children as young as age 3 years evidence fear conditioning in a difficult acquisition paradigm, and that different sub-components of skin conductance conditioning have different developmental trajectories.

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“…Bill was one of the original members of the Society for Psychophysiological Research, being involved when the journal Psychophysiology was just a newsletter distributed among a handful of people in the late 1950s, and he coauthored an article in the first volume of the new journal. Bill went on to serve as president of the Society (Grings, ), and he later received the Distinguished Contribution to Psychophysiology Award from the Society (Furedy, ). He also served as associate editor of Psychophysiology and was frequently a consulting editor for the journal and for numerous other journals, in addition to serving on National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study section panels.…”

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