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Goldfish were trained with light as CS and brief shock as US under conditions in which specified amounts of general activity prevented shock both for experimental animals and for their yoked controls. The relation of the results to those of some recent shuttlebox experiments are considered.
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Greenway, P., Bitterman, M.E. Avoidance conditioning of general activity in the goldfish. Behav. Res. Meth. & Instru. 4, 201–202 (1972). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03207866
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