Conditioned "Anxiety" and Punishment Effects on Operant Behavior of Goldfish ( Carassius auratus )
- 26 July 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 141 (3578) , 351-353
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.141.3578.351
Abstract
Hungry goldfish learned to press a lever for worms on a 2-minute variable-interval schedule of reinforcement. Lever pressing was suppressed in the presence of a flashing light by (i) pairing the light with a brief electric shock ("anxiety") and (ii) punishing the lever-pressing behavior with electric shocks.Keywords
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