Classical EDR conditioning using a truly random control and subjects differing in electrodermal lability level

Solanto, Mary V.; Katkin, Edward S.

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“…Several correlational and discriminant function analyses did not yield any close relationship between electrodermal lability and traditional self-descriptive psychometrics. To test Katkin's (1975, p. 173) hypothesis, that electrodermal lability reflects differences in cognitive efficacy (i.e., a selective enhancement of effective central processes) rather than merely a generalized arousal mechanism, Solanto and Katkin (1979) performed a study on differential classical light-shock conditioning (Sect. 3.1.2.1), using the same kind of SR recordings transformed to log SC as Hastrup and Katkin (1976).…”

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Electrodermal Activity

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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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Applications of Electrodermal Recording

Boucsein

2011

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The third part of this book is dedicated to various applications of EDA recording. The aim is to provide a theoretical framework for the use of the different EDA parameters described in Chap. 2 as psychophysiological indicators in the appropriate fields. Since there are thousands of articles reporting EDA results (Sect. 1.1.3), their comprehensive description would go far beyond the limits of the present book. Instead, the focus will be on giving more detailed information especially for studies which enlighten either methodological issues or provide support for interpretation of results in the light of psychophysiological theories related to EDA. The scope of applications will be mainly restricted to those areas where considerable developments in the use of EDA measurement have taken place since the 1970s. As in Chap. 2 of the present book, the term "standard methodology" will be used for EDA recordings in accordance with the standards as outlined in Sect. 2.2.7. Methodology seems a most crucial point in fields of application outside laboratory psychophysiology. It is the present author's hope that this book will stimulate the use of these standards in different fields of applied research within psychology as well as outside of it. Stimulus-Related Psychophysiological ParadigmsWith respect to the preponderance of either phasic or tonic parameters, the scope of psychophysiology may be divided into parts, focusing either on responses to distinct stimuli or on physiological parameters as indicators of changes in more general states. While the second kind of paradigm is dealt with in Sect. 3.2, the present chapter's focus is on electrodermal concomitants that appear during stimulation and information processing. 1 For summaries of older results, see Prokasy and Raskin (1973) and Edelberg (1972a). More recent reviews will be referred to within the appropriate sections.W. Boucsein, Electrodermal Activity, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4614-1126-0_3, # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012 259As a consequence of the widespread use of EDA parameters in orienting, habituation, and conditioning research, the respective results have been summed up by different authors (see the appropriate contributions in the books edited by Gale & Edwards, 1983; Kimmel, van Olst, & Orlebeke, 1979; Prokasy & Raskin, 1973; Siddle, 1983). Therefore, Sects. 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 will focus on the extraction and use of appropriate EDA parameters and only report a small number of studies as typical examples of parameterization in the different contexts. Another focus will be on the role of EDA in information processing, as outlined in Sect. 3.1.3. Electrodermal Indices of Orienting and HabituationThe concepts of orienting and habituation are widespread used in psychophysiology. A short outline of the most important theories, for example, Sokolov's (1963aSokolov's ( , 1963b "neuronal model," the dual-process theory proposed by Groves and Thompson (1970), and Wagner's (1976) so-called "priming theory," was given by Stephenson and Siddle (1983).The orientin...

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1983

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