APS
29th APS Annual Convention · 2017
Harm Avoidant Individuals Exhibit Enhanced Learning in a Probabilistic Category Learning Task: Further Support for a Learning Diathesis Model of Anxiety Disorders
- Todd Allen
University of Northern Colorado
Abstract
Anxiety vulnerable individuals exhibit enhanced associative learning. We investigated harm avoidance and sensitivity to reward and punishment with a computer-based probabilistic category learning task with separate reward and punishment trials. Harm avoidant and punishment sensitive individuals exhibited enhanced learning. These findings support a learning diathesis model of anxiety disorders.
Human Learning and Memory
