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Failure to Obtain One-Way Shuttle Avoidance in the Lizard Anolis Sagrei

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Cuban anoles (Anolis sagrei) were studied in a one-way shuttle procedure with a compound auditory-light stimulus which commenced 5 sec. prior to electric shock onset. None of the 6 lizards learned to avoid, although all animals developed reliable escape responding. Asymptotic performance was quite similar to that obtained in an earlier study which employed a two-way shuttle procedure. The results suggest that auditory and visual stimuli do not become effective conditioned stimuli with lizards when they are paired with an aversive stimulus.

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  1. Department of Behavioral Science, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 33620, USA

    Robert W. Powell & Harry Mantor Jr.

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This research was supported in part by a grant from the University of South Florida Research Council.

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Powell, R.W., Mantor, H. Failure to Obtain One-Way Shuttle Avoidance in the Lizard Anolis Sagrei. Psychol Rec 19, 623–627 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03393895

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