Preference for Familiar Stimuli in the Rat
- 1 December 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 19 (3) , 868-870
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.3.868
Abstract
An initial preference for a white box with a grid floor over a gray box with a solid floor was shown by two groups of rats. For both groups, this preference increased with time. One group having 1 hr. of familiarization with a similar, white, grid box exhibited a significantly stronger preference than the other group having no previous experience with the apparatus. An interpretation based on fear of novel stimuli and the similarity of the grid box and the home cage was offered.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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