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Rats were trained to avoid unsignaled shocks with response-shock intervals of 30, 60, or 120 sec. When CSs of 60 sec duration paired with unavoidable shocks were then superimposed upon the avoidance baseline, responding decreased during the CS. Reductions in responding resulted in extra shocks which were potentially avoidable in all response-shock interval conditions, with the greatest increase in shocks in the response-shock 30-sec condition. Decreases in responding were greater when the CS was paired with a 2.0-mA unavoidable shock than with a 1.0-mA shock.
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Preparation of this manuscript was supported, in part, by PHS Research Grant MH 18898-01 from the National Institute of Mental Health.
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Scobie, S.R. The response-shock interval and conditioned suppression of avoidance in rats. Animal Learning and Behavior 1, 17–20 (1973). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03198991
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