Fish (Tilapia aurea), as rats, learn shuttle better than lever-bumping (press) avoidance tasks: a suggestion for functionally similar universal reactions to a conditioned fear-arousing stimulus.

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Abstract

Fish learned a shuttle avoidance task faster than a lever-bumping task. The latter task was hardly mastered at all. These and other results tend to support the suggestion for functionally similar universal reactions to a conditioned fear-arousing stimulus.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)489-495
Number of pages7
JournalAmerican Journal of Psychology
Volume92
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1979

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

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