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This document summarizes an experiment conducted by Robert Yerkes and John Dodson in 1908 that investigated the relationship between stimulus strength and the rapidity of habit formation in mice. The experiment tested how quickly mice could learn to discriminate between a white box and a black box and avoid receiving an electric shock by entering the white box. The researchers found that mice learned best at moderate levels of shock strength, and that both weaker and stronger shocks impaired learning. This

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