Transfer of avoidance responding to a sensory preconditioned cue: Evidence for the role of S-S and R-S knowledge in avoidance learning

Declercq, Mieke; Houwer, Jan De

doi:10.1016/j.lmot.2008.11.003

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“…Indeed, the avoidance responses and expectancies that emerged in Declercq and De Houwer's (2009b) study for K and L were consistent with the unidirectional nature of the pairing administered at the outset (i.e., A followed by K, B followed by L; avoidance trained for A and B emerged for K and L, respectively). A convincing demonstration of clinically relevant indirect avoidance would involve at least three bi-directionally related equivalence relations separated by one intervening stimulus, similar to those adopted by Augustson and Dougher (1997).…”

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confidence: 75%

“…The aim of the present study was to extend the findings of both Augustson and Dougher (1997) and Declercq and De Houwer (2009b) by testing whether the predictions made by Lovibond's (2006) expectancy model of avoidance could explain indirect acquisition of avoidance. The study will address three main issues.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…In a recent study, Declercq and De Houwer (2009b) used a sensory pre-conditioning procedure to investigate the indirect control of avoidance. Declercq and De Houwer (2009b) first paired two neutral stimuli A and B with two other neutral stimuli K and L. Next, A and B were each followed by a unique US (a red 'X' and a red 'Y', respectively, resulting in money loss).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Declercq and De Houwer (2009b) first paired two neutral stimuli A and B with two other neutral stimuli K and L. Next, A and B were each followed by a unique US (a red 'X' and a red 'Y', respectively, resulting in money loss). In the avoidance learning phase, participants learned to make one avoidance response (R1) in the presence of A and another avoidance response (R2) in the presence of B that both resulted in omission of the US.…”

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Inferred threat and safety: Symbolic generalization of human avoidance learning

Dymond

Schlund

Roche

et al. 2011

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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a b s t r a c tSymbolic generalization of avoidance may underlie the aetiology and maintenance of anxiety disorders. The aim of the present study was to demonstrate inferred threat-avoidance and safety (non-avoidance) behaviours that occur in the presence of stimuli indirectly related to learned threat and safety cues. A laboratory experiment was conducted involving two symbolic stimulus equivalence relations consisting of three physically dissimilar stimuli (avoidance cues: AV1eAV2eAV3 and neutral cues: N1eN2eN3). During avoidance learning involving aversive images and sounds, a key-press avoidance response was trained for one member of one of the relations (AV2) and non-avoidance for another (N2). Inferred threat and safety behaviour and ratings of the likelihood of aversive events were tested with presentations of all remaining stimuli. Findings showed a significantly high percentage of avoidance to both the learned and inferred threat cues and less avoidance to both the learned and inferred safety cues. Ratings in the absence of avoidance were high during training and testing to threat cues and low to safety cues and were generally lower in the presence of avoidance. Implications for associative and behavioural accounts of avoidance, and modern therapies for anxiety disorders are discussed.

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confidence: 99%

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Inferred threat and safety: Symbolic generalization of human avoidance learning

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Roche

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Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…In sensory preconditioning (SPC), for example, a prior association between neutral stimuli (e.g., a tone and a light) in the absence of aversive reinforcement enables the transfer of a conditioned response after just one of the stimuli (e.g., the light) undergoes direct conditioning with the US. Higher-order conditioning procedures such as SPC (see also second order conditioning; Gewirtz & Davis, 2000) increase the explanatory power of conditioning models of fear and anxiety to describe how stimuli indirectly related to the conditioning experience acquire the ability to evoke a threat response (Declercq & De Houwer, 2009).…”

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Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research

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Fear generalization, in which conditioned fear responses generalize or spread to related stimuli, is a defining feature of anxiety disorders. The behavioral consequences of maladaptive fear generalization are that aversive experiences with one stimulus or event may lead one to regard other cues or situations as potential threats that should be avoided, despite variations in physical form. Theoretical and empirical interest in the generalization of conditioned learning dates to the earliest research on classical conditioning in nonhumans. Recently, there has been renewed focus on fear generalization in humans due in part to its explanatory power in characterizing disorders of fear and anxiety. Here, we review existing behavioral and neuroimaging empirical research on the perceptual and non-perceptual (conceptual and symbolic) generalization of fear and avoidance in healthy humans and patients with anxiety disorders. The clinical implications of this research for understanding the etiology and treatment of anxiety is considered and directions for future research described.

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Avoiding a feared stimulus: Modelling costly avoidance of learnt fear in a sensory preconditioning paradigm

Wong

Pittig

2022

Biological Psychology

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Transfer of avoidance responding to a sensory preconditioned cue: Evidence for the role of S-S and R-S knowledge in avoidance learning

Cited by 13 publications

References 18 publications

Inferred threat and safety: Symbolic generalization of human avoidance learning

Inferred threat and safety: Symbolic generalization of human avoidance learning

Fear Generalization in Humans: Systematic Review and Implications for Anxiety Disorder Research

Avoiding a feared stimulus: Modelling costly avoidance of learnt fear in a sensory preconditioning paradigm

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