Heat Training in the Mongolian Gerbil
- 1 August 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 33 (1) , 275-280
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1973.33.1.275
Abstract
Heat avoidance was an effective technique in producing a discriminative response in Mongolian gerbils. Rapid relearning occurred after a series of extinction trials. The animals were able to master a successive-cue reversal task, with heat used as a negative reinforcer. In addition, there seemed to be 36-day retention of the discriminative response acquired through the heat-training procedure.Keywords
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