PLAY AS A REINFORCER FOR MAZE-LEARNING IN JUVENILE RATS
PLAY AS A REINFORCER FOR MAZE-LEARNING IN JUVENILE RATS
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DOI:
10.1016/s0003-3472(81)80173-x
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.5
通讯作者:
EINON, DF
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作者:
HUMPHREYS, AP;EINON, DF
The reinforcing value of play for juvenile rats was examined, relative to that of other social experiences. Successive experimental groups chose, in a T-maze, between normal companions and companions whose social behavior was rendered abnormal by physical confinement or by amphetamine or chlorpromazine treatment. Both drugs inhibited play, as did physical restriction, but they had opposing effects on other social behaviors, so that the choice presented was between social experiences with and without play. Young rats learned these social discriminations as easily as a food/no food discrimination in the same apparatus, developing a preference for the playing partner. Nonplaying partners indulging in large amounts of amicable social behavior were chosen more frequently than unsociable animals.