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A light and buzzer each separately maintained a latency of response which avoided shock in a shuttle box. When the light and buzzer were compounded, the latency was significantly shorter than the latency to either single stimulus. This result reliably occurred only with Ss that had a high percentage of avoidance responses and fairly, short latencies to the single stimuli The results were interpreted in terms of summation of response tendencies.
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The author would like to extend his appreciation to the following people for their help in running the experiment: Bruce Caldwell, Markida Hipkins, Martin Lobdell, Catherine Nielsen, Fred Sundquist, and Linda Yanda.
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Miller, L. Stimulus compounding with an instrumental avoidance response. Psychon Sci 16, 46–47 (1969). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03331908
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