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BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH AND THERAPY
卷 147, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2021.103986
关键词
Fear conditioning; Reward conditioning; Occasion setting; Anxiety; Depression; Pavlovian conditioning
资金
- National Science Foundation [1911441]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- SBE Off Of Multidisciplinary Activities [1911441] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
This study investigated the effects of context and discrete stimuli on Pavlovian learning in fear and appetitive conditioning paradigms. The results showed that trait anxiety was associated with increased fear of occasion setters in fear conditioning, while trait depression was linked to decreased expectations of reward in appetitive conditioning. This suggests that clinically anxious individuals may have heightened fear responses to occasion setting compounds, while clinically depressed individuals may anticipate less reward from compounds involving negative occasion setters.
Contexts and discrete stimuli often hierarchically influence the association between a stimulus and outcome. This phenomenon, called occasion setting, is central to modulation-based Pavlovian learning. We conducted two experiments with humans in fear and appetitive conditioning paradigms, training stimuli in differential conditioning, feature-positive discriminations, and feature-negative discriminations. We also investigated the effects of trait anxiety and trait depression on these forms of learning. Results from both experiments showed that participants were able to successfully learn which stimuli predicted the electric shock and monetary reward outcomes. Additionally, as hypothesized, the stimuli trained as occasion setters had little-to-no effect on simple reinforced or non-reinforced stimuli, suggesting the former were indeed occasion setters. Lastly, in fear conditioning, trait anxiety was associated with increases in fear of occasion setter/conditional stimulus compounds; in appetitive conditioning, trait depression was associated with lower expectations of monetary reward for the trained negative occasion setting compound and transfer of the negative occasion setter to the simple reinforced stimulus. These results suggest that clinically anxious individuals may have enhanced fear of occasion setting compounds, and clinically depressed individuals may expect less reward with compounds involving the negative occasion setter.
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