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Titration schedule with rats in a restraining device
Dallemagne, Ghislaine; Richelle, Marc
1970In Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 13 (3), p. 339-348
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Abstract :
[en] In a restraining device, providing a constant localization and easy placement of stimulating electrodes, rats were contioned to a push a front panel in order to reduce the intensity of a shock which otherwise increased regularly every 10 sec. Rapid contioning was obtained from all subjects. They showed a very stable behavior, with negligible inter- or intra-individual variability throughout very long experimental sessions. The operant nature of the response was demonstrated further in extinction, where no shock was delivered, and in situations where the animal could not change the predetermined intensity of the shock. The interpretaion of the obtained threshold was discussed with reference to previous studies on titration schedule. It was suggested that, with the parameters used, the shock intensity at which it was maintained by the rats' behavior, had the value of a warming signal, and that, in this particular case, the titration schedule mainly discriminative avoidance behavior rather than escape behavior.
Disciplines :
Animal psychology, ethology & psychobiology
Author, co-author :
Dallemagne, Ghislaine
Richelle, Marc ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Services généraux (Fac. de psycho. et des sc. de l'éducat.) > Relations académiques et scientifiques (Psycho et sc.éduc.)
Language :
English
Title :
Titration schedule with rats in a restraining device
Publication date :
1970
Journal title :
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
ISSN :
0022-5002
Publisher :
Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, Bloomington, United States - Indiana
Volume :
13
Issue :
3
Pages :
339-348
Peer reviewed :
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