ISSN:
1469-8986
Source:
Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
Topics:
Medicine
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Psychology
Notes:
Heart rate (HR), respiratory rate (RR), blood pressure (BP). and motor components of responses to non-reinforced and reinforced auditory stimuli were studied in six dogs over a period of 20 months. The experiment consisted of several phases: habituation, orienting training, conditioning, extinction, and reconditioning. Differentiated non-specific motor reactions in four of six dogs developed quickly and before the differentiated specific motor conditioned response (CR) and consistent HR or RR conditioned responses. The form of the gross organismic CR pattern differed in each dog. Yet the animals reliably maintained, in each separate system, their rank-order positions across experimental phases, suggesting that the CR is determined in part by innate or earlier acquired differences in functioning.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1965.tb03238.x
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