Free-choice exploration: Decreased responsivitiy to illumination from prior experience.
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 60 (2) , 297-298
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022316
Abstract
Albino rats that received postweaning gentling and untreated control rats were tested in adulthood with a free-choice exploration procedure. Both groups were split into 3 subgroups each of which was tested with 1 of 3 exploration alleys designed to represent increasing degrees of novelty relative to the home cages. An interaction was found between prior experience and alley novelty; the control subgroup tested with the most novel alley exhibited slower entry times than all other gentled and control subgroups.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
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