EFFECTS OF SHOCK INTENSITY AND DURATION ON THE FREQUENCY OF BITING ATTACK BY SQUIRREL MONKEYS1
- 1 January 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 11 (1) , 83-88
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1968.11-83
Abstract
Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief tail-shocks in the presence of a rubber tube connected to a pneumatic switch. Biting attack upon this tube was found to be a decreasing function of time since shock delivery and a direct function of shock intensity and duration. These results parallel findings in investigations employing more “naturalistic” social situations, indicating that attack against the inanimate and animate environment is a direct function of the intensity of an aversive stimulus. The results also demonstrate that frequency of biting attack as a datum is sensitive to several experimental manipulations.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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