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phenomenon > learning phenomenon > reinstatement effect

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reinstatement effect  

Definition

  • A learning phenomenon observed when an extinguished learned behavior is recovered when the subject is exposed to the unconditional stimulus or reinforcer after extinction (adapted from Bouton et al., 2021, p. 613).

Broader concept

Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Bouton, M. E., & Bolles, R. C. (1979). Role of conditioned contextual stimuli in reinstatement of extinguished fear. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 5(4), 368–378. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.5.4.368

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

  • • Bouton, M. E., Maren, S., & McNally, G. P. (2021). Behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of pavlovian and instrumental extinction learning. Physiological Reviews, 101(2), 611–681. https://doi.org/10.1152/physrev.00016.2020

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Molet, M., Craddock, P., Leconte, C., & Zentall, T. (2009). Pour une approche cognitive du conditionnement pavlovien. L’Année psychologique, 109(2), 333–357. https://doi.org/10.3917/anpsy.092.0333

    • Document type: literature review

    • Access: open

  • • Rescorla, R. A., & Heth, C. D. (1975). Reinstatement of fear to an extinguished conditioned stimulus. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1(1), 88–96. https://doi.org/10.1037/0097-7403.1.1.88

    • Document type: empirical study

    • Access: closed

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

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