The Sackett self-selection circus is an apparatus used in experimental psychology with non-human primates. It is a space divided into compartments containing objects; the time an animal spends with each object is measured, indicating any amount of fear of or anxiety from those objects.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ Richard, David C. S. and Lauterbach, Dean L. (2006). In Handbook of Exposure Therapies. Academic Press. pp. 35-36. ISBN 0-12-587421-9. Google Book Search. Retrieved on December 17, 2007.
  2. ↑ "Laboratory Primate Newsletter Volume 28 Number 4". www.brown.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-15.


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