The role of prefeeding in an apparent frustration effect.
- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 54 (6) , 445-450
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0047210
Abstract
To test the motivating effect of blocking a consummatory response a method used by Amsel and Roussel was adopted, but included a measure of the effect of prefeeding, an uncontrolled factor in their design. Running times in the second half of the runway were significantly slower on normal trials than on frustrating ones. On prefed trials running times in both parts of the runway were slower than without prefeeding. Therefore, the first finding may be due to the retarding effect of feeding rather than the motivating effect of frustration. The results are related to a "tertiary drive" hypothesis. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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