Measures of conditioned emotional response

Measures of conditioned emotional response
An example the movement ratio of the blocking effect. Notice the movement ratio at trial stage 3A shows that the new CS was not acquired.

In experimental psychology, there are multiple measures of conditioned emotional response used by researchers as the measure of conditioned emotional response in a subject in classical conditioning experiments.

Movement ratio

The movement ratio is the proportion of time during the presentation of a conditioned stimulus that the subject is displaying elicited behavior. Movement ratio is defined as

MR = Tb / Tt

Where MR = Movement Ratio, Tb=Time displaying the elicited behavior and Tt = Total time of CS presentation

Suppression ratio

The suppression ratio is equal to the response rate during a CS presentation divided by the sum of response rate during the CS plus the response rate in the period immediately preceding the CS. In other terms:

SR = D / (D + B).

Where SR = Suppression Ratio, D = Responding during CS and B = Responding before CS.



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