Self-punitive behavior: Fear of different alley segments
| Autor: | Sanford J. Dean, Catherine M. Pittman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
| Předmět: |
Health (social science)
Punishment (psychology) Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Extinction (psychology) medicine.disease_cause Education Developmental psychology Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Jumping Male rats Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Alley Psychology Social psychology |
| Zdroj: | Learning and Motivation. 20:87-95 |
| ISSN: | 0023-9690 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/0023-9690(89)90034-9 |
| Popis: | According to the Mowrer-Brown hypothesis (Brown, 1969 , Punishment and Aversive Behavior ), conditioned fear is critical to the maintenance of self-punitive behavior. This study investigated the effects of midsegment shock on fear of different alley segments. Sixty male rats were given shock-escape training followed by 15 trials of regular or punished extinction. Animals were then blocked in one of the alley segments and allowed to escape by jumping over a hurdle into a safebox. Hurdle-jump performance indexed the level of fear of each segment. Fear of preshock segment cues was greater than fear of shock segment and postshock segment cues, and fear of first segment cues was greater for punishedextinction subjects than for regular-extinction subjects. The results support a conditioned-fear interpretation of self-punitive behavior. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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