1977
DOI: 10.1016/0023-9690(77)90066-2
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The generality of learned helplessness in the rat

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“…Learned inactivity and competing motor response hypotheses are consistent with the result since they would claim post hoc that the stimulus control of the interfering pattern generalizes narrowly. Unfortunately, this claim is inconsistent with the Altenor, Kay, and Richter (1977), Goodkin (1976), and Rosellini (1978) results showing generalization across reinforcers. So these pose a problem for all theories of the interference effect in rats.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 45%
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“…Learned inactivity and competing motor response hypotheses are consistent with the result since they would claim post hoc that the stimulus control of the interfering pattern generalizes narrowly. Unfortunately, this claim is inconsistent with the Altenor, Kay, and Richter (1977), Goodkin (1976), and Rosellini (1978) results showing generalization across reinforcers. So these pose a problem for all theories of the interference effect in rats.…”
Section: Discussioncontrasting
confidence: 45%
“…Rosellini (1978) reported that inescapable shock interfered with the acquisition of instrumental responding for food. Altenor, Kay, and Richter (1977) reported as much interference with the acquisition of a response to escape either shock or from an underwater maze following either uncontrollable shock or underwater experience.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are a number of reasons for this exclusion: For example, Altenor, Kay, and Richter (1977) have indicated that such a control condition may not be appropriate in investigations of learned helplessness. In addition, several studies (e.g., Jones et al, 1977;Seybert, Gilliland, Wilson, McClanahan, & Vandenberg, Note 1;Seybert, Wilson, & Vandenberg, Note 2) have shown that naive human subjects (or subjects in a no-pretreatment condition) perform no differently on a subsequent learning task than do subjects who experience 100% controllability in the pretreatment phase (a condition that was used in the present study).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It has been previously shown that rats exposed to uncontrollable electric shocks (1) later fail to learn to escape shock in a different situation (Maier, Albin, & Testa, 1973); (2) are slow to learn to escape in a water maze (Altenor, Kay, & Richter, 1977); (3) are slow to learn to escape from a goalbox in which expected reward is omitted (Rosellini & Seligman, 1975); (4) show reduced aggressiveness in a shockelicited aggression test (Maier, Anderson, & Lieberman, 1972); and (5) show physiological symptoms of severe stress (Weiss, 1968). Rats exposed to escapable (controllable) shocks do not show these deficits.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%