A relatively weak, unlearned “step-out” response was used to demonstrate reliable one-trial avoidance conditioning in tats without the typical pretraining apparatus familiarization. Approximately 90% of the experimental animals increased their response latency by at least 1,000% on retention trials given 10 min. and/or 24 hr. after the training trial.
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