Electrodermal activity as an indicator of information processing in a nonaversive differential classical conditioning paradigm

1993 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Kirsch ◽  
Wolfram Boucsein ◽  
Rüdiger Baltissen
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Conditioning Paradigm

Classical Conditioning of Beginning Reading Responses

1988 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 611-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Montare
Keyword(s):  
Classical Conditioning ◽  
Incremental Learning ◽  
Trace Conditioning ◽  
Beginning Reading ◽  
Learning Curves ◽  
System Level ◽  
Conditioning Paradigm ◽  
Signalling System ◽  
Learning Trials ◽  
Classically Conditioned

The present study describes the first demonstration that laboratory-controlled experimental procedures can lead to the successful acquisition and subsequent retention of classically conditioned beginning reading responses (CCBRRs) in children of both sexes and mean age of 4 yr. Anticipatory instructions combined with higher-order classical conditioning temporally arranged into a trace conditioning paradigm presented for 10 trials for each response to be learned led to beginning reading responses being successfully acquired by 20 children during 95% of the 2,220 total acquisition learning trials and subsequently correctly recalled on 114 of the 222 retention test trials. Findings support the view that perhaps the relatively sudden and sustained acquisition learning curves for reading responses on the second-signalling-system level of behavior in the present study may be quite different from the relatively slow and incremental learning curves usually obtained in classical conditioning of the autonomic type which occur on the first-signalling-system level.

Schizophrenia and Cluster A Personality Disorders

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 291-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tullio Scrimali ◽  
Liria Grimaldi
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Therapy ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Human Information Processing ◽  
Brain Potentials ◽  
Schizophrenic Patients ◽  
Cluster A

The authors have conducted a research program on the interface between psychophysiology and cognitive therapy for a number of years. Here, they describe a recent study concerning schizophrenia and cluster A personality disorders (paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal). They studied some psychophysiological parameters such as evoked brain potentials and electrodermal activity as well as other aspects concerning parenting. This last topic was investigated by means of the parental bonding instrument. Three groups participated in this study: 10 schizophrenic patients, 10 patients affected by cluster A personality disorders (5 paranoid, 1 schizoid and 4 schizotypal) and 10 controls. The authors found some specific, different patterns among the three groups concerning arousal, human information processing and attachment. These results are discussed in the light of their implications for cognitive therapy. The authors give different guidelines for cognitive therapy of schizophrenic patients and cluster A personality disorder.

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