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ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE OF POSTSHOCK RESPONSE PATTERN IN NONDISCRIMINATED AVOIDANCE WITH RATS
Author(s) -
Shimai Satoshi,
Imada Hiroshi
Publication year - 1982
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.1982.37-455
Subject(s) - avoidance response , shock (circulatory) , psychology , interval (graph theory) , avoidance learning , developmental psychology , audiology , neuroscience , medicine , mathematics , combinatorics
Five experimentally naive albino rats were placed under a nondiscriminated lever‐press avoidance schedule in which the delay to the next shock for responses after a shock was longer than the delay for responses after a response. Four rats acquired the postshock response pattern and maintained it for a prolonged period. The results revealed that postshock responding was under operant control and was not purely shock‐elicited. It was suggested that the two kinds of response‐shock interval, i.e. the shock‐response‐shock interval and the response‐response‐shock interval, could and should be independently controlled in nondiscriminated avoidance schedules.