Flavor- vs. tone-cued shock avoidance |
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| Authors: | Howard B Parker Richard F Smith |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Psychology, University of Utah, 84112, Salt Lake City, Utah
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| Abstract: | In a direct comparison, flavor-cued rats learned to avoid shock in a two-way shuttlebox as well as, or better than, tone-cued rats. These results stand in contrast to the prevalent view that rats encounter difficulty in forming flavor-shock, but not tone-shock, associations. In attempting to account for this contrast, we note that experiments revealing cue-modality specificity employ an aversion paradigm and record ingestive behavior. It is argued that both the paradigm and the dependent variable are inappropriate for assessing shock-avoidance learning, and that cue-modality specificity in such a setting reflects paradigm and response choice rather than a general characteristic of rats. |
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