Failure to find a learned drive based on hunger; evidence for learning motivated by "exploration."
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 47 (6) , 428-436
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0062664
Abstract
Although evidence could not be found for a conditioned hunger drive, it was shown that rats will learn a new response in the absence of any apparent biological drive, possibly because of an "exploratory" drive.Keywords
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