Context, ambiguity, and unlearning: sources of relapse after behavioral extinction.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the role of incidental visual cues of the environmental context in attitude change and found that these cues are not directly associated with the valence of counterattitudinal experiences, but instead constrain the activation of available information about the attitude object.

TL;DR: A neurally oriented conceptual and computational model of fear conditioning manifested by freezing behavior (FRAT), which accounts for many aspects of delay and context conditioning, has been constructed.

TL;DR: This study suggests a good rationale for the development of new add-on medications for exposure-based psychotherapy so as to extinguish drug-conditioned appetitive memories in alcohol-dependent patients.

TL;DR: Experiments in which happy or sad moods were induced in subjects by hyp- notic suggestion to investigate the influence of emo- tions on memory and thinking found that subjects exhibited mood-state-dependent memory in recall of word lists, personal experiences recorded in a daily diary, and childhood experiences.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the catastrophic interference in connectionist networks and show that new learning may interfere catastrophically with old learning when networks are trained sequentially, and the analysis of the causes of interference implies that at least some interference will occur whenever new learning might alter weights involved in representing old learning.

TL;DR: A variety of the techniques based on reciprocal inhibition, such as systematic desensitization, avoidance conditioning, and the use of assertion, are described in detail.