Learning to Detect Triggers of Airway Symptoms: The Role of Illness Beliefs, Conceptual Categories and Actual Experience with Allergic Symptoms

Frontiers in Psychology

Thomas Janssens¹ 

关键词: asthma triggers;    contingency learning;    generalization (psychology);    expectancy violation;    illness perceptions;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00926

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Background: In asthma and allergic rhinitis, beliefs about what triggers allergic reactions often do not match objective allergy tests. This may be due to insensitivity for expectancy violations as a result of holding trigger beliefs based on conceptual relationships among triggers. In this laboratory experiment, we aimed to investigate how pre-existing beliefs and conceptual relationships among triggers interact with actual experience when learning differential symptom expectations.

【 授权许可】

CC BY