Facilitation of Discriminated Avoidance Learning by Prior Operant Training
- 1 June 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 22 (3_suppl) , 1273-1276
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1968.22.3c.1273
Abstract
Prior operant training facilitated discriminated lever-press avoidance performance when discontinuous shock (0.2 sec. on time, 2.0 sec. off time) was delivered to rats. Avoidance rather than escape responding occurred in all of the animals whether massed training (3 sessions per day) or spaced training (1 session per day) was given. In control rats, which received no prior operant experience, avoidance learning was markedly inferior to that of the trained animals.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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