dc.contributor.advisor | P. J. Dunham | |
dc.contributor.author | Carr, Adam F. | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:34:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 1976 | |
dc.date.issued | 1976 | en_US |
dc.identifier.other | AAINK31478 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55265 | |
dc.description | | en_US |
dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1976. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | A review of the literature on classical conditioning of pain elicited attack suggested that the use of a bite-tube as a CS should produce strong conditioned attack in Squirrel monkeys. In Experiment I, however, it was found that backward-pairings of shock and the bite-tube produced conditioned attack more reliably than forward pairings.
Experiment II demonstrated that forward-pairings could in
fact produce strong conditioned attack but that such attack was independent of the duration of postshock attack. Experiment III showed that conditioning via the forward-pairing procedure did not depend upon the occurrence of shock-free periods. These data were compatible with the Pavlovian stimulus-substitution analysis of conditioning.
Experiment IV found that conditioning via the backward-pairing procedure depended upon the presentation of trials on a fixed-time schedule.
When trials were randomly distributed in time, very few attacks occurred. These data suggested that under the fixed-time schedule attack was elicited by the safety-signal properties of the bite-tube.
A detailed examination of the data from all experiments suggested that neither the stimulus-substitution analysis nor the safety-signal analysis provided a consistent interpretation of the data. Finally, an opponent-process model of motivational phenomena recently proposed
by Solomon and Corbit (1974) provided a consistent description of the present data and led to a number of testable predictions. | |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
dc.publisher | | en_US |
dc.subject | Philosophy. | en_US |
dc.subject | Animal behavior. | |
dc.subject | Squirrel monkeys. | |
dc.title | Classical conditioning of attack behavior in squirrel monkeys. | en_US |
dc.type | text | en_US |
dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
dc.contributor.external-examiner | N. J. Mackintosh | |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | V. M. LoLordo | |
dc.contributor.thesis-reader | B. R. Moore | |