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The study explores possible reasons for the poor avoidance performance of rats in a heterogenious black-white shuttlebox reported by Weisman, Denny, and Zerbolio (1967). Little evidence of this decrement was found when rats were free to make intertrial responses. There was a general deficit in learning when a door was used to prevent intertrial responding, however, and this deficit was greater when the rats were confined in the black-white apparatus.
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Supported by Research Grant GB-20801 from the National Science Foundation.
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Moot, S.A., Nelson, K. & Bolles, R.C. Avoidance learning in a black and white shuttlebox. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 4, 501–502 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334270
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