Gender Differences in the Acquisition of Unconscious and Conscious Fear Memory
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摘要: 近年来女性更容易患焦虑障碍的现象受到越来越多研究者的重视,然而以往关于恐惧记忆习得性别差异的相关研究只考虑了有意识恐惧记忆学习,却忽视了无意识恐惧条件作用。基于此,本研究在恐惧条件作用过程中同时呈现无意识条件刺激和有意识条件刺激,从而同时考察在无意识恐惧记忆与有意识恐惧记忆习得进程中的性别差异。结果发现男性可以快速地习得有意识恐惧记忆,并能成功地识别无意识安全信息;相对地,女性在有意识恐惧记忆习得的速度上较慢,并且表现出无意识安全学习缺陷。根据这些结果,在教育中强化女性个体的无意识安全学习能力可能是降低焦虑障碍发病风险的一种途径。Abstract: In recent years, more and more researchers paid attention to the phenomenon that female are more likely to suffer from anxiety disorder. However, previous studies on gender differences in fear memory acquisition only considered conscious fear memory learning, but neglected the role of unconscious fear conditioning. Based on this, this study presents both unconscious and conscious conditioned stimuli in the process of fear conditioning, so as to investigate the gender differences in the acquisition process of unconscious and conscious fear memory simultaneously. The results show that males can rapidly acquire conscious fear memories and successfully identify unconscious safety information; in contrast, females are slower in acquiring conscious fear memory and show deficits in unconscious safety learning. According to these results, it may be a way to reduce the risk of anxiety disorder by strengthening the ability of individual female's unconscientious safety learning in education.
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Key words:
- anxiety disorder /
- fear memory /
- fear conditioning /
- gender differences /
- unconsciousness
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