Animals which had been exposed to water traumatization in infancy were more emotional and made more errors on a water escape maze, but not on avoidance conditioning, than did non-traumatized control animals. The results, in conjunction with previous findings, suggest that early experience effects are trauma-relevrnt and do not generalize to all stressful situations experienced in adulthood.
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