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Learned Helplessness in the Rat: Retention and Immunization
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And Others; Hannum, Robert D. – Developmental Psychology, 1976
Inescapable shock given to weanling rats produced large deficits in adult escape behavior. Experience with escapable shock while a weanling immunizes the animal against the deficits produced by inescapable shock received as an adult. Implications of these findings for animal models of human depression are discussed. (Author/MS)
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research, Conditioning