Runway performance during extinction as a function of drive and incentive.
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 60 (3) , 463-464
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0022569
Abstract
Four groups of 10 Sprague-Dawley albino rats were trained in a runway under different conditions of drive and reward during acquisition and extinction. A significant difference was found between the high-drive-high-reward and high-drive-low-reward groups in the acquistion and extinction phases. Extinction was faster for the high-drive-high-reward group, which reached significantly higher asymptote during acquistion. The results supported Spence''s prediction concerning the role of incentive in the extinction process.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: