The effect of change of incentive on reaction potential.
- 1 January 1959
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 52 (5) , 594-597
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0046479
Abstract
Spence's explanation of incentive-motivation in terms of generalized r-sub(g) is tested using 11 rats that have previously performed perfectly the double drive discrimination in Kindler's black-white T maze. Spence's hypothesis predicts that when incentives are reversed in the appropriate alleys Ss will avoid the alley in which the incentive has been changed. Failure to find the predicted changes in choice frequency is taken as negative evidence for Spence's analysis of incentive-motivation. From Psyc Abstracts 36:02:2EM94R. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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