Effects of CS omission following avoidance learning.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 72 (1) , 36-39
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023354
Abstract
Three experiments investigated the effect of CS [conditional stimulus] omission on avoidance learning in rats. Experiment I varied the number of avoidance trials preceding a constant number of CS- omission trails, and Experiment II varied the number of CS-omission trials following a constant number of avoidance trials. The CS-omission effect was not found in either experiment. Instead, a decrement in avoidance responding following the CS-omission trials was observed in all experimental groups. Experiment III investigated the effect of different periods of delay following CS-omission trials to determine whether the response decrement was caused by an overall increment in anxiety level. The decrement in avoidance responding following the CS-omission trials did not diminish with the passage of time suggesting it was not due to a heightened anxiety level.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
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