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Experimentally naive male rats were tested for conditioned defensive burying following four sessions of preexposure to the test chamber with (CS preexposed group) or without (control group) the shock prod present. Subjects preexposed to the shock prod engaged less time in conditioned defensive burying and accumulated smaller piles of bedding material than the control subjects. Since all subjects touched the prod and received the electric shock on the conditioning day, it was suggested that in this preparation, shock prod preexposure retards the emergence of conditioned defensive burying but does not inhibit initial contact with the to-be-conditioned stimulus.
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This research was conducted at, and supported by, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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Oberdieck, F., Tarte, R.D. The effect of shock prod preexposure on conditioned defensive burying in rats. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 17, 111–112 (1981). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333682
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333682