Learning in kittens with manipulatory, exploratory, and food incentives.

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This experiment was designed to ascertain whether learning could be demonstrated with manipulatory and exploratory activities as incentives when the history of the Ss, 8 kittens, was carefully controlled so that neither manipulatory nor exploratory activity was associated with drive reduction. The kittens were trained on a single-unit Y maze on a position habit with manipulable objects as incentives. The results support the thesis that manipulatory and exploratory activities are rewarding in their own right and that the postulation of a derived-incentive function is unnecessary. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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