Date of Award
1974
Degree Name
Psychology
College
College of Liberal Arts
Type of Degree
M.A.
Document Type
Thesis
Abstract
It has been found that animals which have acquired a response while under the influence of a drug , fail to emit this response when subsequently tested while nondruggedo Likewise, animals which have acquired a response while nondrugged fail to emit this response when subsequently drugged. However, under both conditions, Ss emlt the response when retested in the original condition. either drugged or nondrugged. Thus, the presence of the response appears to be conditional upon the drug state of the organism during acquisition. This phenomenon has been called state dependent (StD) or dissociative learning (Overton, 1964). Dissociation apparently varies along a continuum of completeness. For example, total dissociation occurs when responses acquired in one condition, either the dru-'5ged (D) state or the nondrugged (ND) state, fail to occur when tested in the alternate state. That is, there is no transfer of responses from D to ND states or from ND to D stateso Moderate dissociation occurs when a few responses which were acquired in the D or ND states are emitted when later tested in the alternate state. Weak dissociation occurs when responses transfer from D to ND states or ND to D states, though Ss trained and tested in the same state usually perform statistically better than Ss trained in one drug state and then tested in the alternate state.
Subject(s)
Dissociative disorders -- Research.
Recommended Citation
Detty, Robert L., "Physical fatigue as a discriminative cue in choice learning in the T-maze" (1974). Theses, Dissertations and Capstones. 1999.
https://mds.marshall.edu/etd/1999
