Unconditioned responses to electrical shock by cats.
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 60 (3) , 449-451
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022573
Abstract
The method of constant stimuli was used to study the responses of 6 young adult cats to electrical shocks of varying intensity (.0 to 2.8 ma.). The functions obtained were compared with those obtained from Wistar rats by Kimble and indicated clearly that cats had a higher threshold for locomotor responses and a lower threshold for flinch responses than rats. The flinch threshold for cats as determined by the method of constant stimuli was lower than that reported by previous workers using the "up-and-down" method.Keywords
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