Fear and Learning

Univ. of California, Los Angeles. Brings together recent developments in learning theory for understanding etiology and treatment of fears and phobias. Topics include fear conditioning and clinical implications, acquisition and maintenance of fear, exposure therapy and extinction, counteracting the context-dependence of extinction, and more. For psychologists.

Contributors

ix

Preface

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Introduction: Etiological Factors of Fears and Phobias

3

(12)

Michelle G. Craske

Debora Vansteenwegen

Dirk Hermans

I. Fear and Learning: Basic Issues

15

(38)

Fear Conditioning and Clinical Implications: What Can We Learn From the Past?

17

(20)

Paul Eelen

Bram Vervliet

Human Fear Learning: Contemporary Procedures and Measurement

37

(16)

Ottmar V. Lipp

II. Acquisition and Maintenance of Fear

53

(102)

Defenses and Memories: Functional Neural Circuitry of Fear and Conditional Responding

55

(20)

Jennifer J. Quinn

Michael S. Fanselow

Contemporary Learning Theory Perspectives on the Etiology of Fears and Phobias

75

(24)

Susan Mineka

Jon Sutton

Cognitive Mechanisms in Fear Acquisition and Maintenance

99

(18)

Graham C. L. Davey

Fear and Avoidance: An Integrated Expectancy Model

117

(16)

Peter Lovibond

Fear Conditioning in an Emotion Regulation Context: A Fresh Perspective on the Origins of Anxiety Disorders

133

(22)

John P. Forsyth

Georg H. Eifert

Velma Barrios

III. Extinction, Renewal, and Reinstatement of Fear

155

(80)

Anatomical, Molecular, and Cellular Substrates of Fear Extinction

157

(18)

Mark Barad

Counteracting the Context-Dependence of Extinction: Relapse and Tests of Some Relapse Prevention Methods

175

(22)

Mark E. Bouton

Amanda M. Woods

Erik W. Moody

Ceyhun Sunsay

Ana Garcia-Gutierrez

Renewal and Reinstatement of Fear: Evidence From Human Conditioning Research

197

(20)

Debora Vansteenwegen

Trinette Dirikx

Dirk Hermans

Bram Vervliet

Paul Eelen

Exposure Therapy and Extinction: Clinical Studies

217

(18)

Michelle G. Craske

Jayson L. Mystkowski

IV. Final Thoughts

235

(10)

Fear and Learning: Debates, Future Research, and Clinical Implications

237

(8)

Dirk Hermans

Debora Vansteenwegen

Michelle G. Craske

References

245

(54)

Author Index

299

(12)

Subject Index

311

(8)

About the Editors

319

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