Duncan (1949) trained rats to avoid a shock and then administered an electroconvulsive shock at different time delays. He found that:

A. the longer the time between study and ECS the better performance was consistent with interference theory.
B. the longer the time between study and ECS the better performance was consistent with decay theory.
C. the longer the time between study and ECS the better performance was consistent with consolidation theory.
D. the longer the time between study and ECS the worse performance was consistent with consolidation theory.


Ans: C. the longer the time between study and ECS the better performance was consistent with consolidation theory.

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