A test of latent learning for a non-goal significate.

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After preliminary training in a single unit T-maze with differentially distinctive end boxes for a hungry and satiated group and to identical end boxes for a hungry control group, all groups non-reinforced, all groups were given 30 reinforced trials in a straightaway to one of the distinctive goal boxes. Tests were then made on the T-maze under 22-hour hunger to the goal box which had been reinforced in the alley situation, and was in the same position as it had been in preliminary training. Response for all animals to the "positive" box was at chance expectancy. "The results indicate that the presence of some sort of 'potential reward' is necessary for differential response learning, whether it be latent or manifest." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)
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