The Effects of Variation of Intertrial Interval on Exploration of Elevated and Enclosed Mazes
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- 1 August 1967
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 19 (3) , 264-271
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14640746708400101
Abstract
The interval between exploratory trials was varied in experiments using simple elevated or enclosed mazes. Activity on the second trial was depressed for short intertrial intervals but had recovered after about 10 min.; the degree of recovery was different in the two types of maze. A second decrease in second trial activity was found with inter-trial intervals of more than 20 min., but a further experiment suggested this was due to the effects of delay itself, rather than to previous experience of the environment.Keywords
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