Conditioned and unconditioned emotional defecation in the rat.
- 1 January 1953
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 46 (5) , 378-382
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0063632
Abstract
Conditioned defecation may be produced as a part of the general behavioral pattern of the conditioned emotional response. Defecation in an open field does not correlate highly with performance on a "timidity" test. It is concluded that "while defecation is clearly related to what it seems proper to call emotion or emotional behavior in the rat, the relationship probably becomes unambiguous and reliable only when the emotional disturbance is substantial and reasonably intense." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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