Specificity-Generality of Early Experience Effects
- 1 April 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 16 (2) , 353-354
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1965.16.2.353
Abstract
Animals which had been exposed to water traumatization in infancy were more emotional and made more errors on a water escape maze, but not on avoidance conditioning, than did non-traumatized control animals. The results, in conjunction with previous findings, suggest that early experience effects are trauma-relevrnt and do not generalize to all stressful situations experienced in adulthood.Keywords
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