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Psychosomatic Medicine 24:459-463 (1962)
© 1962 American Psychosomatic Society

A Demonstration of the Long-Term Retention of a Conditioned GSR

ALLAN E. EDWARDS Ph.D.1 and LOREN E. ACKER M.A.1

1 Psychosomatic-Psychology Research Laboratory, Wadsworth GM&S Hospital, V.A.C., Los Angeles, Calif.

During World War II in the U. S. Navy the "battle stations" (general quarters) signal often preceded aversive stimulation. In considering the lack of opportunity for extinction it was hypothesized that this signal should still, 15-20 years later, elicit a conditioned autonomic response. The results showed that a group of navy veterans gave significantly greater galvanic skin response than a control group of army veterans to the "battle stations" signal. This was taken as supporting the evidence that humans show persisting, conditioned autonomic responses, without intervening reinforcement, over many years. Implications for Gantt's theory of schizokinesis are discussed.

Submitted on August 30, 1961






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