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DIFFERENTIAL CONDITIONAL EMOTIONAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSES—A TRAINING TECHNIQUE FOR MONKEYS 1
Author(s) -
Nathan Marc A.,
Smith Orville A.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1968.11-77
Subject(s) - lever , psychology , heart rate , conditioned emotional response , stimulus (psychology) , conditioning , classical conditioning , unconditioned stimulus , schedule , avoidance learning , shock (circulatory) , audiology , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , neuroscience , statistics , computer science , medicine , mathematics , physics , blood pressure , quantum mechanics , operating system
A training technique has been developed which combines classical differential conditioning and conditional emotional response (CER) procedures. After monkeys were trained to lever‐press on a variable‐interval schedule, two stimulus lights were presented. One light (CS) was always followed, upon termination, by electrical shock; the other light (DS) was never followed by shock. The response to the CS was a decreased rate of lever‐pressing and increased heart rate and blood‐flow velocity. None of these responses occurred to the DS. This technique eliminates the possibility of pseudoconditioning and provides measurement of both somatic and autonomic responses in a CER situation.