A comparison of learning based on social or nonsocial discriminative stimuli

Abstract

Two groups of six rats each were trained to run across an open-field maze with four choice-point alternatives. For one group the correct response was based upon a social discriminative stimulus and for the other it was based upon a nonsocial discriminative stimulus. Results indicated that social responses were learned faster and were more durable under extinction conditions than were responses based on nonsocial stimuli. © 1970, The Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.