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Peer reviewedRudy, Jerry W.; And Others – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1976
Repeated, isolated presentations of a stimulus typically reduce the subsequent ability of that cue to become an effective conditioned stimulus. This phenomenon is known as the latent inhibition effect. Four experiments investigate this effect. (Editor/RK)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Conditioning, Experimental Psychology, Experiments
Direct linkRudy, Jerry W.; Wright-Hardesty, Karli – Learning & Memory, 2005
We use a variation of contextual fear conditioning, called the context pre-exposure facilitation effect (CPFE) to study the rat's memory for context. In this paradigm, the rat is pre-exposed to a conditioning context and later returned to that context, where it is immediately shocked. The memory context is revealed by the fact that pre-exposure to…
Descriptors: Fear, Animals, Context Effect, Memory
