Allocation of Attention: Effects on Classical Conditioning
Description:
According to Deikman (1966), meditation (defined as a training to sustain attention) has a deautomatizing effect. This ascertion was utilized in the present study as a departure point and explored within an information processing framework for classical conditioning. A sample of 48 college students was selected and
randomly assigned to four conditions with different instructional sets involving allocation of attention during a classical conditioning background situation. The basic hypothesis o…
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Date:
December 1984
Creator:
Michel, Sergio B. (Sergio Barboza)