A re-examination of response latency in shuttlebox avoidance learning
- 1 August 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Australian Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 33 (2) , 253-256
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00049538108258741
Abstract
Male and female rats of the Australian High Avoider line were given 50 trials on a shuttlebox avoidance task. Over trials both sexes displayed a significant increase in the probability of avoidance and a significant decrease in the latency of the avoidance response. There was a significant inverse correlation between the two response measures. These results are in contrast to a report by Bolles, Moot, and Nelson (1976) and suggest that avoidance response latency decreases with continued training, a prediction of the most prominent theories of avoidance learning.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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