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B Remington

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PubMed1992

Different drink cues elicit different physiological responses in non-dependent drinkers.

Different kinds of physiological response to stimuli which have been associated with alcohol ingestion have been observed in human subjects. A literature review shows that when subjects are exposed to alcohol associated stimuli without consuming the drinks then increases in arousal, as indexed by skin conductance and heart rate increases, tend to occur. If subjects consume drinks which have been associated with alcohol ingestion, then decreases in arousal tend to occur. Forty non-dependent drinkers were asked to either consume or hold drinks which either had a history of alcohol association or did not. Interactions were observed between the activities subjects engaged in with the drinks and the degree of alcohol association of the drinks. Presentation of alcohol associated drinks produced smaller increases in arousal than non-alcohol associated drinks if the drinks were consumed but vice versa if the drinks were just held. The results support the conclusions drawn from the literature review and have implications for current theories of conditioned responses to drug cues and the related theories of the motivational processes involved in the regulation of drug intake.

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PubMed1992

A method for producing alcohol placebos.

A method for producing placebo drinks that are hard to discriminate from alcoholic drinks is described. Subjects received a series of paired comparisons, each involving a distinctively flavoured alcoholic drink and one of six different placebo versions of it. Following each such comparison, rating scales were used to record the 'alcoholic strength' and 'sensory intensity' of a placebo drink relative to the alcoholic drink. The procedure was replicated using another distinctive alcoholic drink and another set of placebos. Based upon a multivariate analysis of subjects' ratings, the version of the placebo that was most difficult to discriminate from it's corresponding alcoholic drink was identified for both alcoholic drinks. The method is intended to be a general one for producing placebo versions of alcoholic drinks which do not differ on any dimensions which can be shown to be important in producing a response.

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PubMed1988

The role of referential speech in sign learning by mentally retarded children: a comparison of total communication and sign-alone training.

We conducted two experiments to assess the role of referential speech during sign training in which the spoken words corresponding to signs were receptively known to the participants. An alternating treatments design was used to compare sign acquisition across two teaching conditions in which referents were presented either with or without the corresponding verbal label. During the first experiment, signs were taught concurrently; during the second experiment, signs within each of the respective conditions were taught in a serial fashion. In both experiments, signs taught by total communication were acquired faster than those taught by sign-alone training.

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