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Does Elimination of a Negative Phototaxis Eliminate CAR Acquisition in Goldfish?
Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society (1978)
  • Dominic Zerbolio, University of Missouri-St. Louis
  • L L Wickstra
Abstract
Eleven groups run under classical, instrumental, pseudoconditioning, CS-only, US-only, and time-lapse procedures, with the ITI illuminated and a color change CS, showed that true classically trained animals do not increase CAR performance with training, whereas instru- mentally trained goldfish do. This is consistent with a phototaxic interpretation suggested in earlier work. Additionally, the finding that CS-only and time-lapse controls show high “acquisi- tion” rates, whereas pseudoconditioning controls do not, not only questions the use of the pseudoconditioning procedure as the sole learning control in this situation, but also questions a learning interpretation itself. Conclusions of what and how, or even if, goldfish learn in this apparatus seem premature.
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Publication Date
May, 1978
DOI
10.3758/BF03336844
Citation Information
Dominic Zerbolio and L L Wickstra. "Does Elimination of a Negative Phototaxis Eliminate CAR Acquisition in Goldfish?" Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society Vol. 11 Iss. 5 (1978) p. 324 - 326
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/umsl-emeritus/4/