Mice (Mus musculus) learn a win-shift but not a win-stay contingency under water escape motivation.
Twenty mice (Mus musculus), the second filial generation offspring from a C57BL/6 and DBA/2J cross, received spatial win-shift and win-stay water escape training within a mixed design in which all mice received both types of training. Acquisition under win-shift was superior to win-stay with respect to errorless trials and latencies regardless of the order in which the procedures were experienced. Win-stay responding did not exceed chance levels during any training phase. These data contradict the claim that win-stay training is the more easily acquired of the 2 acquisition strategies under aversive motivation.
Locurto
Charles
C
Department of Psychology, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts 01610, USA. clocurto@holycross.edu
Emidy
Christine
C
Hannan
Scott
S
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D005260:Female; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009042:Motivation; D013037:Spatial Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D014867:Water
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