Heat avoidance was an effective technique in producing a discriminative response in Mongolian gerbils. Rapid relearning occurred after a series of extinction trials. The animals were able to master a successive-cue reversal task, with heat used as a negative reinforcer. In addition, there seemed to be 36-day retention of the discriminative response acquired through the heat-training procedure.
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