Studies in individual differences in maze ability. VII. The specific components of maze ability, and a general theory of psychological components.

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The psychological components determining maze ability are inferred from the study of over 1000 rats on a 17 unit T-maze. Criteria used to validate the inferences made are: internal consistency, goodness of fit, prediction of other behavior in situ, and in relevant other situations 10 types of psychological components are inferred as follows: direction-sets, food-pointing, short-cut, counter tendency, centrifugal scoring, adaptation, lassitude, exit gradient, inertia, and conflict. The effects of these components are expressed quantitatively and are shown to fit the exptl. facts, both for the beginning learning of trial one and the more completed learning of the last few trials. The behavior of both maze-bright and maze-dull animals is explained. A general theory of psychological components is described.

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