40 rats received escape training and extinction with shock and safe areas either similar or dissimilar to each other. No effects of similarity were demonstrated in acquisition. Resistance to extinction was impaired when either training or extinction occurred with shock and safe areas similar to each other relative to a dissimilar control condition.
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