Cardiac responses to shock in curarized dogs: Effects of shock intensity and duration, warning signal, and prior experience with shock.
- 1 January 1966
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 62 (1), 1-7
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0023476
Abstract
In 6 curarizeddogs, the magnitudes of both the cardiac acceleration during shock stimulation and deceleration after stimulation were found to be monotonic increasing functions of intensity (2, 4, 6, and 8 ma. [milliampere ]); and inverted U -shaped functions of duration (0.1,0.5, 2.5, 5.0, and 10.0 sec.) of electrical shock. Utilizing 32 curarized dogs with a discriminative classical conditioning procedure, the presence of warning signal did not affect the magnitude of the unconditioned cardiac response, and previous experience with shocks of lower intensity did reduce the magnitude of the unconditioned cardiac response to subsequent high-intensity shock.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Response suppression and recovery of responding at different deprivation levels as functions of intensity and duration of punishment.Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 1964
- Preception in the Rat: Autonomic Response to Shock as Function of Length of Warning IntervalScience, 1962