# Experimentally produced neurotic behavior in the rat

Live

Experiments subsidized by a grant from the Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan

Last inspected: Apr. 1986. Condition complete; good

Experiments by Norman R.F. Maier and Nathan M. Glaser ; photographed by Adelbert Ford

This film is a pictorial presentation of neurotic behavior in rats, with an attempt at diagnosis. Rats are trained using the Lashley jumping apparatus to react in a certain manner. Afterwards, the stimulus is removed, and a situation is structured in which the only learned responses available are negative ones. The results are either new adaptations to old learned behavior, or neurotic behavior. Neurotic behavior begins with a violent outburst but is followed by passive behavior, even when the rat is returned to his cage with other rats

Received: (date unknown) as a donation from the Psychological Cinema Register of Pennsylvania State University

Videocassette (Betacam SP)

Videodisc (DVD)

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1938
- By: Maier, Norman R. F. (Norman Raymond Frederick), 1900-1977, Glaser, Nathan M, Pennsylvania State College. Psychological Cinema Register
- Genres: Education, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/experimentallyproducedneuroticbehaviorintherat)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/experimentallyproducedneuroticbehaviorintherat?play=1)