Perceptual curiosity, exploratory behavior, and maze learning.
- 31 December 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 50 (3) , 228-232
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0046603
Abstract
It was shown that rats prefer (over repeated trials) a path leading to a more spacious goal box or a path leading to a goal box containing complex stimuli over a blind alley or an empty goal box respectively. It is pointed out that the supposed reinforcing effects of novel stimuli furnish a means of critically testing the novelty drive hypothesis as opposed to the Pavlovian notion of an investigatory reflex. 22 references.Keywords
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