... is how one is conditioned to respond distinctly to a certain indicator, but then the associated response diminishes over time as the certain indicator is removed (Nairne, 245). METHOD Participants: The participant was a college undergraduate over the age of 18; experimental participation was in partial satisfaction of requirements for an undergraduate general education course. Additional criteria required is that some stimuli may occasionally cause the participant to be startled, so participants with hearing or seeing problems, or with a history of anxiety disorders, should consider these factors. Procedure: The case study was presented as an experiment involving the use of repeating faces which occasionally would be followed by unpleasant sounds. The initial instructions received upon arriving were to view the images presented and predicting if the unpleasant sound would be followed by using a scale of 1 to 4 (1 - Will not be followed by sound, 2 - Might be followed ...

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