Improvement of shuttle avoidance by handling during the intertrial interval.
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Douglas Wahlsten, Visiting Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: Rats handled between trials during shuttle avoidance training were superior to those not handled on several measures of avoidance learning; handled rats were nonetheless inferior to those receiving one-way training. A second experiment clearly demonstrated that differences between shuttle and one-way avoidance could not be attributed to differences in handling. Furthermore, hypotheses which explained poor shuttle avoidance by reference to either competing freezing responses or the necessity of entering a previously shocked compartment were by themselves unable to account for the present findings. A modification and synthesis of these hypotheses was proposed to provide a better account of the present data. It was suggested that freezing will occur only in the presence of fear-motivated conflict and that conflict is present only when a new response is required which is opposed to a previously successful response.
Improvement of shuttle avoidance by handling during the intertrial interval.
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1969, 67, 252-259.
- Language: English
- Date: 1969
- Keywords
- Rats, Avoidance, Learning, Handling