Differences in Maze Performance of Group- vs Isolation-Reared Rats
- 1 February 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 12 (1) , 199-202
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1963.12.1.199
Abstract
"Training in a 5 choice-point multiple-U maze with food serving as reinforcement showed that isolation-reared rats required significantly more trials to achieve the learning criterion than group-reared rats [N = 16]. Differences in performance were attributed to greater initial exploratory behavior with fewer fear-like responses exhibited by group-reared animals. An examination of a group of experimental papers revealed that only a small fraction of authors have specified the rearing conditions of their experimental animals.".This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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