Effect of an Anti-Anxiety Drug in a Learned Helplessness Experiment
作者:
A. Nijssen,
P.R Schelvis,
期刊:
Neuropsychobiology
(Karger Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 18,
issue 4
页码: 195-198
ISSN:0302-282X
年代: 1987
DOI:10.1159/000118417
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Learned helplessness;Anxiety;Chlordiazepoxide;Rats
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
Rats were injected with chlordiazepoxide 30 min before a situation of uncontrollable stress, or 30 min before an FR-3 escape test 24 h after the uncontrollable stress. Only in the latter situation they reduced their response latencies. The conclusion was that helplessness after moderate stress (i.e. electric shock) resembles a state of anxiety. Anxiety can be descibed on a behavioural level as inhibiting the ongoing behaviour. Therefore an explanation in terms of anxiety is in agreement with Weiss’ inactivity hypothesis and with the results of the study by Drugan et al., who also emphasized the role of anxiety or fear in learned helplessness experiment
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