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VERTICAL JUMPING AND SIGNALED AVOIDANCE
Author(s) -
Cándido Antonio,
Maldonado Antonio,
Vila Jaime
Publication year - 1988
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.1988.50-273
Subject(s) - jumping , avoidance response , avoidance learning , psychology , audiology , interval (graph theory) , communication , neuroscience , medicine , mathematics , physiology , combinatorics
This paper reports an experiment intended to demonstrate that the vertical jumping response can be learned using a signaled‐avoidance technique. A photoelectric cell system was used to record the response. Twenty female rats, divided equally into two groups, were exposed to intertrial intervals of either 15 or 40 s. Subjects had to achieve three successive criteria of acquisition: 3, 5, and 10 consecutive avoidance responses. Results showed that both groups learned the avoidance response, requiring increasingly larger numbers of trials as the acquisition criteria increased. No significant effect of intertrial interval was observed.