40 neurotic female patients, aged 16 to 65, were conditioned using a finger withdrawal response and GSR to shock. In a second experiment, using 30 neurotic and 30 normal females, aged 16 to 65, finger withdrawal, GSR, and heart-rate responses were conditioned to shock, and an eyeblink response was conditioned to an airpuff. A consistent negative relationship between age and conditionability was found for this age group (8 out of 12 correlations were significant at p < .05). The relation of these results to those of other studies of age differences was discussed.
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