Learned helplessness: Effects of response requirement and interval between treatment and testing

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 183-191

  Hunziker, M H L ^a   dos Santos, C V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Learned helplessness; Response requirement; Time course

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; RODENT; TESTING METHOD;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; JUMPING; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RUNNING; SHOCK;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ELECTROSHOCK; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 35348859453     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.02.012     Document Type: Article

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