Fear and Anxiety in Virtual Reality, 2015 Investigations of cue and context conditioning in virtual environment BestMasters Series
Langue : Anglais
Auteur : Genheimer Hannah
Virtual realities provide an outstanding tool in anxiety research. A fear conditioning study investigates and illustrates the development of anxiety disorders in humans. Hannah Genheimer describes the scientific background of fear and anxiety and presents an empirical study in a highly controlled virtual environment. Psychophysiological as well as subjective data on the participants? fear and anxiety clearly show contextual fear conditioning. Cue conditioning in the light of one-trial learning is discussed. The results emphasize the promising application of virtual environments in psychotherapy.
From classical conditioning to contextual fear conditioning.- Fear conditioning in virtual reality.- Explicit ratings and physiological data.-Contextual conditioning and anxiety disorders.
Hannah Genheimer studied Biology and wrote her interdisciplinary master thesis at the Department of Psychology I in Wuerzburg. Currently, she works on the investigation of fear and anxiety in her dissertation project implicating fear conditioning in virtual reality and vagus nerve stimulation.
Study in the field of social sciences
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Date de parution : 12-2014
Ouvrage de 79 p.
14.8x21 cm
Thème de Fear and Anxiety in Virtual Reality :
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