Studies of the effect of change of drive: III. Amounts of switching produced by shifting drive from thirst to hunger and from hunger to thirst.
- 1 January 1954
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 47 (3) , 179-182
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0062106
Abstract
Two groups of subjects were trained in a T maze in which one of the end boxes was baited. One group was thirsty and received water as a reward while the other group was hungry and received food as a reward. After subject responded correctly for 12 successive trials its motivational condition was shifted to the other group. On the test trial under the new drive state it was found that 41% of the hunger-to-thirst group switched their spatial response, while only 15% of the thirst-to-hunger group switched. This result was consistent with the hypothesis that thirsty subjects avoid cues conditioned to anticipatory eating responses to dry food.Keywords
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