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The attenuation of the renewal effect via the forgetting of contextual attributes

Steinman, Christopher T.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1304290941

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2011, BA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Psychological Sciences.
Sixty-nine Sprague-Dawley strain rats were used to experimentally investigate the hypothesis that the renewal effect (ABA design) could be attenuated via time-mediated forgetting of contextual attributes in a Pavlovian fear-conditioning paradigm. One or fourteen days after fear-training in one context, subjects received an extinction exposure in either the same or a shifted context. Although the results indicate that differences in context and interval play some role in the effectiveness of extinction, low levels of expressed extinction across all conditions prevented empirical analysis of how the forgetting of contextual attributes may interact with the renewal effect. Dependent measure validity, methodological issues, and theoretical considerations are discussed.
David Riccio, PhD (Advisor)
Robin Joynes, PhD (Committee Member)
Manfred van Dulmen, PhD (Committee Member)
Chris Was, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
Psychology
renewal effect; forgetting of contextual attributes; forgetting of stimulus attributes; memory; forgetting; extinction; context; context shift

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  • Steinman, C. T. (2011). The attenuation of the renewal effect via the forgetting of contextual attributes [Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1304290941

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Steinman, Christopher. The attenuation of the renewal effect via the forgetting of contextual attributes. 2011. Kent State University, Undergraduate thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1304290941.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Steinman, Christopher. "The attenuation of the renewal effect via the forgetting of contextual attributes." Undergraduate thesis, Kent State University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ksuhonors1304290941

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