Two Tests of the Stuck-in-Time Hypothesis.

The authors report 2 experiments that test the stuck-in-time hypothesis, which argues that animals cannot time-date events and thus do not remember when events occurred and do not anticipate future events. In Experiment 1, rats in the experimental condition could earn a large reward by reentering th...

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Published in:Journal of General Psychology Vol. 129; no. 4; pp. 415 - 430
Main Authors: Roberts, William A., Roberts, Shelley
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd October 2002
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        Time perception
        Rat behavior
        Psychology of learning
        Maze puzzles
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          Time perception
          Rat behavior
          Psychology of learning
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      ab: The authors report 2 experiments that test the stuck-in-time hypothesis, which argues that animals cannot time-date events and thus do not remember when events occurred and do not anticipate future events. In Experiment 1, rats in the experimental condition could earn a large reward by reentering the 1st arm that they visited on a radial maze. They did not learn to reenter this arm early and did no better than did a control group that was not given a large reward for reentering the first arm. In Experiment 2, rats in the experimental group could earn a large reward by delaying entry into a distinctive arm. These rats did not learn to delay entry into the distinctive arm, and they performed no better than did the control-group rats, which did not receive a large reward for delayed entry. These experiments provide further evidence in support of the stuck-in-time hypothesis. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
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