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THE EVALUATION OF AUTONOMIC AND MO TOR COMPONENTS OF THE NONAVOIDANCE CONDITIONED RESPONSE IN THE DOG 1
Author(s) -
Dykman Roscoe A.,
Mack Robert L.,
Ackerman Peggy T.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
psychophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.661
H-Index - 156
eISSN - 1469-8986
pISSN - 0048-5772
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-8986.1965.tb03238.x
Subject(s) - habituation , psychology , heart rate , extinction (optical mineralogy) , audiology , conditioning , respiratory rate , developmental psychology , blood pressure , neuroscience , medicine , chemistry , mineralogy , statistics , mathematics
Heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), blood pressure (BP). and motor components of responses to non‐reinforced and reinforced auditory stimuli were studied in six dogs over a period of 20 months. The experiment consisted of several phases: habituation, orienting training, conditioning, extinction, and reconditioning. Differentiated non‐specific motor reactions in four of six dogs developed quickly and before the differentiated specific motor conditioned response (CR) and consistent HR or RR conditioned responses. The form of the gross organismic CR pattern differed in each dog. Yet the animals reliably maintained, in each separate system, their rank‐order positions across experimental phases, suggesting that the CR is determined in part by innate or earlier acquired differences in functioning.