Author(s)

Sun Nan, Li Congjian, Lu Hong

Corresponding Author

Lu Hong

ABSTRACT

The overgeneralization is deemed as one reason for the fading training failure and causes the regression of the fear memory or addiction memory. The study adopts prediction for the task judgment and observes the effect on the fear memory fading from the change of overgeneralization stimulus characteristics through changing the conditioned stimulus color, shape and size. The result shows that the fading regression quantity in the size generation group and the control group is the minimum and the fading generation in the color and shape generation is the most obvious. It shall avoid the occurrence of similar clues of the color and shape like the conditioned stimulus to the greatest extent during the treatment process based on the memory fading training in the future and therefore improve the fading training effect on the treatment of pathological memory such as the addiction memory and traumatic memory, etc.

KEYWORDS

Conditioned stimulus, generalization, fear memory, fading, fading regression