112 rats were assigned to 7 orders of treatments designed to detect such ECS effects as freezing responses, activity from emotional arousal, and amnesia. In the first 8 trials experimental Ss received footshock or ECS as punishment for stepping off a small platform while control Ss received no shock. On subsequent trials ECS and No-Shock groups were transferred to footshock; Footshock and No-Shock groups to ECS conditions; and Footshock and No-Shock groups to No Shock. The results did not indicate the presence of either conditioned freezing or competing activity responses although an amnesia interpretation was supported.
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