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Anumber of psychophysiological, cognitive and personality measures, and classical appetitive and aversive SR acquisition and extinction rates were taken from a sample of 25 male undergraduate volunteers. Principal Components Analysis of the data revealed general acquisition and extinction factors which were indexed by the psychophysiological variables. Regression analyses showed additionally that Eysenck’s E-I dimension predicts both acquisition and extinction rates, and that imagery may be an important mediational variable in CR acquisition.
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Mangan, G.L. Personality and conditioning: Factors of classical CR acquisition and extinction and their relationship to personality types. Pay. J. Biol. Sci. 13, 226–235 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03002258
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