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A riddance deficit in the shuttle chamber after unavodable and avoidable stressor influences has been recorded in rats of two lines that differ in the capacity to form active avoidance: the KHA line-rats with a high rate of learning, and KLA-rats which learn poorly. Unavoidable stress leads to a riddance deficit only in KHA rats, whereas avoidable stress forms it only in KLA rats. It is hypothesized that “learned helplessness” represents a pathology of adaptive behavior, if unavoidable stress is applied to KHA rats, while in KLA rats., it is one of the forms of adaptive behavior as a result of avoidable stress.
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Translated from Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal imeni I. M. Sechenova, Vol. 78, No. 12, pp. 64–69, December, 1992.
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Zhukov, D.A. The manifestation of “learned helplessness” in rats with various capacities for active avoidance. Neurosci Behav Physiol 24, 280 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362035
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02362035