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RESISTANCE TO EXTINCTION OF A LEARNED FEAR DRIVE AS A FUNCTION OF BEING CONDITIONED TO A STIMULUS COMPOUND AND TO ITS ELEMENTS
Abstract
At the present time there is a great deal of interest in the learned fear drive in animals and men. Many of the current investigations in this area regard fear and anxiety as the same thing. If fear and anxiety are the same thing, and they appear to have some characteristics in common with each other, it would follow that this is indeed an important area in view of the role that anxiety plays in the field of clinical study. Even if fear and anxiety cannot be equated, and we reserve the label of fear for animal studies and that of anxiety for human clinical data as Mowrer urges, there still remains the fact that fear itself is a phenomenon observed in both animals and man and is thus worthy of study. This statement appears to be a rather logical outcome of the fact that fear has been observed to have rather striking effects upon behavior. Organisms may run the gamut from complete immobility to frantic efforts to escape. Few other drives elicit such a wide range of responses.
Subject Area
Experimental psychology|Psychology
Recommended Citation
BACON, ROBERT SARGENT, "RESISTANCE TO EXTINCTION OF A LEARNED FEAR DRIVE AS A FUNCTION OF BEING CONDITIONED TO A STIMULUS COMPOUND AND TO ITS ELEMENTS" (1955). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI0014353.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI0014353