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Analysis of a simple avoidance situation. II. A model

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A mathematical model has been constructed to describe experimental data recorded in a study of a simple avoidance situation. The theoretical description makes use of the concept of the effective number of shocks. The model explains the existence of oscillations encountered in previous experiments.

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  • Brady, J. P. and C. Marmasse. 1962. “Analysis of a Simple Avoidance Situation. I. Experimental Paradigm.”The Psychological Record,12, 4, 361–365.

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  1. Claude Marmasse

    Present address: Institute for Muscle Research, Marine Biological Laboratories, Woods Hole, Mass.

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  1. Institute of Psychiatric Research, Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Claude Marmasse & John Paul Brady

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Marmasse, C., Brady, J.P. Analysis of a simple avoidance situation. II. A model. Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics 26, 77–81 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02476624

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