Factors Affecting the Measurement of Classically Conditioned Fear in Rats Following Exposure to Escapable Versus Inescapable Signaled Shock.

Osborne, Francis H.

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ERIC Number: EJ127173

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Publication Date: 1975

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Factors Affecting the Measurement of Classically Conditioned Fear in Rats Following Exposure to Escapable Versus Inescapable Signaled Shock

Osborne, Francis H.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 1, 4, 364-73, Oct 75

Three experiments are reported in which rats first received 50 escapable or inescapable signaled-shock trials. The results of the experiments are discussed in terms of a learned active-inactive predisposition to respond. (Editor/RK)

Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Conditioning, Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Psychological Studies, Research Methodology, Stimuli

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