Supplementary report: Information deprivation and irrelevant drive as determiners of an instrumental response.

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In a previous study Ss who were deprived of visual information as a result of their being in a darkened room increased their responses to a button which produced visual stimuli. This was interpreted as supporting a drive formulation of information deprivation. The present study uses the same procedure but introduces aversive and appetitive irrelevant drives (hunger and pain). The number of button responses in the 2 experimental groups and a control group were determined for the 4 2-hour periods of the test session. The results are in accord with predictions made from the drive-summation hypothesis and support the usefulness of an information-drive concept. From Psyc Abstracts 36:04:4CF10J. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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