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HEART RATE RESPONSE AND SUPPRESSION OF BAR PRESSING DURING CER AND PASSIVE AVOIDANCE

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1977
Summary:
According to the cardiac-somatic hypothesis, heart rate changes are a function of changes in somatic activity. Conversely, the Independent Response Theory states that conditioning of heart rate and somatic activities are independent of each other. Using two groups, the present study examined these conflicting theories by measuring changes in heart rate and bar press suppression during 10 days of CER and passive avoidance conditioning. Results of this study indicate that heart rate responses and bar press suppression conditioned independently of each other, during both CS and post CS periods. Further, while bar pressing suppressed rapidly in both groups, heart rate responses were different between the two groups suggesting that although both procedures conditioned the same behavioral results, they elicit different autonomic responses.
Title: HEART RATE RESPONSE AND SUPPRESSION OF BAR PRESSING DURING CER AND PASSIVE AVOIDANCE.
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Name(s): SEGER, KARL ALFRED, III.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1977
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 77 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: According to the cardiac-somatic hypothesis, heart rate changes are a function of changes in somatic activity. Conversely, the Independent Response Theory states that conditioning of heart rate and somatic activities are independent of each other. Using two groups, the present study examined these conflicting theories by measuring changes in heart rate and bar press suppression during 10 days of CER and passive avoidance conditioning. Results of this study indicate that heart rate responses and bar press suppression conditioned independently of each other, during both CS and post CS periods. Further, while bar pressing suppressed rapidly in both groups, heart rate responses were different between the two groups suggesting that although both procedures conditioned the same behavioral results, they elicit different autonomic responses.
Identifier: 13883 (digitool), FADT13883 (IID), fau:10711 (fedora)
Note(s): Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.
Charles E. Schmidt College of Science
Subject(s): Heart beat
Emotional conditioning
Avoidance (Psychology)
Psychophysiology
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