Factors facilitating lever-press avoidance.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 62 (2) , 214-217
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023680
Abstract
To assess factors which hinder discriminated lever-press avoidance, rats which had learned to respond to a CS [conditional stimulus] by crossing the experimental chamber to press a lever in order to avoid shock were retained during the intertrial interval in the experimental chamber or In a carrying case. Locus of intertrial placement enhanced performance more than required chamber crossing. All experimental groups performed better Ss[subjects] retained in lever chamber without door drop as part of CS. A 2nd experiment demonstrated that superiority of experimental groups in Experiment 1 was due inpart to effectiveness of a door-drop CS. Experiment 3 showed that training under optimal conditions of Experiment 1 did not transfer to control conditions and vice versa.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Facilitation of discriminated avoidance learning by discontinuous shock.Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1964