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This study ascertained why an earlier experiment found newly hatched chicks to be poor learners in a shock avoidance situation. A technological problem of passing an electric current through the naturally insulated feet of the chick was identified. This rectified, one-day-old chicks will demonstrate escape conditioning when the response terminates both CS and UCS. They will demonstrate both escape and avoidance conditioning when the response terminates only the UCS.
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Gray, P.H., Yates, A.T., Vandiver, D.R. et al. A reverse Kamin effect in the escape and avoidance conditioning of newly hatched chicks. Psychon Sci 9, 507–508 (1967). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327862
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03327862