Experimentally produced neurotic behavior in the rat

Duration: 0:22:19

Genre: Actuality | Animal | Educational

Year Published: 1938

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | University of Michigan: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: silent

Description: Using the Lashley jumping technique, rats are trained to a pattern discrimination in a two-window situation. When they are transferred to a one-window situation using the negative sign, a small stream of air directed behind the animals forces them to jump to the negative card. One animal develops "abortive behavior" while the other develops stubborn resistance, climaxed by a violent form of neurotic outburst.

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