Year: 1972
Type: article
Abstract: Two experiments using rats as Ss were conducted in order to test the adequacy of the fear-reduction hypothesis in accounting for the behavior fixation observed in an avoidance conditioning situation. In Experiment I guiding Ss equally often in three different directions was not effective in making their avoidance behavior variable and in changing their direction of response: They fixated in their preferred direction. In Experiment II giving exceptionally large amount of training on the nonpreferred response was effective in changing their direction of response from the preferred to the nonpreferred direction. It was concluded that fear-reduction hypothesis alone could not explain the fixation phenomenon observed in an avoidance situation.
Source: Japanese Psychological Research
Authors: HIROSHI IMADA, KUNIO NIIHAMA
Institution: Kwansei Gakuin University
Language: English
Topic: Memory and Neural Mechanisms
Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience
Field: Neuroscience
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2173393409