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EFFECTS OF SHOCK INTENSITY AND DURATION ON THE FREQUENCY OF BITING ATTACK BY SQUIRREL MONKEYS 1
Author(s) -
Hutchinson R. R.,
Azrin N. H.,
Renfrew J. W.
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.1968.11-83
Subject(s) - biting , squirrel monkey , intensity (physics) , duration (music) , shock (circulatory) , psychology , physics , biology , medicine , neuroscience , acoustics , ecology , optics
Squirrel monkeys were periodically exposed to brief tail‐shocks in the presence of a rubber tube connected to a pneumatic switch. Biting attack upon this tube was found to be a decreasing function of time since shock delivery and a direct function of shock intensity and duration. These results parallel findings in investigations employing more “naturalistic” social situations, indicating that attack against the inanimate and animate environment is a direct function of the intensity of an aversive stimulus. The results also demonstrate that frequency of biting attack as a datum is sensitive to several experimental manipulations.