Aprendizaje inconscienteCondicionamiento a estímulos visuales subliminales
- Núñez Partido, Juan Pedro
- Francisco de Vicente Pérez Doktorvater
Universität der Verteidigung: Universidad Pontificia Comillas
Fecha de defensa: 27 von November von 1998
- María Pilar Ferrándiz López Präsidentin
- María José Carrasco Galán Sekretär/in
- José Luis González Almendros Vocal
- Manuel Froufé Torres Vocal
- Luis López-Yarto Elizalde Vocal
Art: Dissertation
Zusammenfassung
The role of consciousness in Pavlovian conditioning was examined in two experiments in which visually masked neutral words were used as the conditioned stimuli (CS) and an electric shock as the unconditioned stimulus (US). The inter-stimulus interval (ISI) was established individually. A detection threshold was used in Experiment 1 and an identification threshold in Experiment 2. The primary dependent variable was the skin conductance response (SCR). Results showed that the conditioned response (CR) was acquired by 58% of participants who perceived stimuli above the identification threshold, 50% of participants who perceived stimuli below the detection threshold, and 11% of participants who perceived stimuli below the identification threshold, but above the detection threshold. These results suggest that consciousness of the CS-US contingency is not a necessary condition for acquiring a CR of the autonomous nervous system (ANS).