Extinction of avoidance responding in rats: The noise-intensity parameter in noise-facilitation of flooding.
- 1 December 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Canadian Journal of Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie
- Vol. 39 (4) , 529-535
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0080078
Abstract
Sixty rats were given unsignalled avoidance training in the Baum jump-up apparatus and then were given a period of flooding followed by extinction testing. During flooding, 4 groups of 15 rats each received different intensities of continuous white noise. The noise systematically changed spontaneous behaviour during flooding and increased the efficacy of flooding in hastening extinction in a roughly monotonic fashion. Alternative theoretical explanations were discussed.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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