Product Profile of Continuous Avoidance Response Apparatus
Continuous Avoidance Response Apparatus is designed for the study of operant behaviour of small animals. The Apparatus provides a convenient test procedure in which an animal under test has to anticipate the time duration to avoid the punishment by pressing a lever. The Apparatus consists of an illuminated animal chamber with stainless wire grid floor, a lever and the vertically sliding front door. The Continuous Avoidance Response Apparatus in simple in operation.
Key Features of Continuous Avoidance Response Apparatus
- Designed for the study of operant behaviour of small animals
- Provides a convenient test procedure in which an animal under test has to anticipate the time duration to avoid the punishment by pressing a lever
- Consists of an illuminated animal chamber with stainless wire grid floor, a lever and the vertically sliding front door
- Simple in operation
- Control panel consists of the variable shock controls, the LED or LCD register the number of shock stimulus avoided and stimulus delivered, through electronic circuitry
- Operating voltage: 220 volt 50 Hz A.C. Mains
- Illuminated animal chamber
- Avoidance key placed at a convenient height, which requires interrupted pressing by the animal to avoid punitive shock
- Shock stimulus continuously variable from 0 to 200 volts
- Delay time interval variable from 1 to 99 seconds controlled through front panel
- LCD or LED display to monitor delay time, number of shocks delivered and shock avoided by animal
- Stainless steel wire
- A removable sliding tray beneath the floor to collect the feces, etc
