Primary and secondary reward in traumatic avoidance learning.
- 1 August 1960
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 53 (4) , 336-340
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047180
Abstract
Dogs were trained in a shuttle box to avoid an electric shock preceded by a metronome signal; 2 levels of shock were used. A heart-rate-increase response, as well as the avoidance response, was acquired at a faster rate and to a higher asymptote by the high-shock group; this group also extinguished the responses more slowly. The data suggest "that amount of primary drive-reduction influences the growth of an autonomic response related to 'anxiety,' and that amount of secondary-drive reduction influences the growth of an avoidance response." From Psyc Abstracts 36:01:1EK36C. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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