Psychology · Behavioural Psychology
A topic within Behavioural Psychology, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Psychology.
2 works
Bram Vervliet, Michelle G. Craske & Dirk Hermans
Reviews the laboratory phenomena of renewal, reinstatement and spontaneous recovery that explain why exposure therapy's gains so often fail to survive a change of context.
Mark E. Bouton
Argues extinction does not erase the original learned association but adds a new, context-dependent inhibitory memory alongside it, which is why extinguished fear and habits so reliably return outside the extinction context.
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