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Why do Conditioned Responses Show Incrementation, while Unconditioned Responses Show Habituation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 June 2009

H. J. Eysenck
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London

Abstract

This is a series of short invited contributions from therapists and research workers who have volunteered to answer the following question: “If your fairy godmother were to wave her magic wand and give you an immediate answer to a question or questions, without having to do the relevant research, what would you most like to know?”

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies 1982

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