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. 1970 Jul;14(1):11–21. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1970.14-11

The effects of stimuli followed by response-independent shock on shock-avoidance behavior1

O F Pomerleau
PMCID: PMC1333694  PMID: 4988588

Abstract

Four rhesus monkeys were trained on a non-discriminated shock-avoidance schedule (baseline). Stimuli followed by response-independent shock were then presented with the avoidance baseline no longer in effect. The main portion of the experiment consisted of superimposing (independently of responding) the stimuli followed by response-independent shock on the avoidance baseline. Different temporal values of stimulus duration and delay of shock (produced by an avoidance response) were presented successively, using each subject as his own control. When the stimulus duration was short or the delay of shock was long, so that avoidance rate during the stimulus could assume any value without resulting in baseline (avoidable) shocks during the stimulus, a lowered or “suppressed” rate of responding developed during the stimulus. When the stimulus duration was long or the delay of shock was brief, so that avoidable shocks resulted from a response decrement during the stimulus, high or “facilitated” rates of responding developed for a large proportion of the time that the stimulus was present.

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