Role of shock intensity in the learned helplessness paradigm |
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| Authors: | Robert A Rosellini Martin E P Seligman |
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| Institution: | 1. University of Pennsylvania, 19104, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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| Abstract: | Although there have been many studies of the interference effect produced by exposure to inescapable shock, little is known about the role of shock intensity. This experiment factorially manipulated four levels of shock intensity during exposure to inescapable shock and three levels of intensity during the test for interference. Interference occurred at each training shock intensity when training and test shocks were similar. Interference was not obtained when training intensity was high but testing intensity low or medium or when training intensity was low or medium and test intensity was high. These findings pose problems for learned helplessness, learned inactivity, competing motor response, and catecholamine depletion hypotheses of the interference effect in the rat. |
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