The purpose of this experiment was to find the possibility of the backward or simultaneous conditioning in the rabbit's nictitating membrane response.
Thitty-two albino rabbits were randomly assigned to three experimental groups receiving paired pres...
The purpose of this experiment was to find the possibility of the backward or simultaneous conditioning in the rabbit's nictitating membrane response.
Thitty-two albino rabbits were randomly assigned to three experimental groups receiving paired presentation of the CS and US at interstimulus interval of -100 msec., 0 msec., and 100 msec., and one control ,group receiving random presentation of the CS alone or US alone.
All subjects received 2 days of adaptation, 8 days of acquisition, and 1 day of extinction.
In the result, the evidence of the backward and the simultaneous conditioning was not found. This result was discussed in terms of conditioned inhibition, and response system.