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Document Type

Research

Abstract

The present study has been formulated to test Hull's assumption of differential formation of habit strength of the initial S-R components of response chains of different length. A factorial design with two lengths of alley and 1\Hl times of food deprivation was employed. From the assumptions of 1) differential drive based upon food privation, 2) differential habit based upon alley length, and 3) the multiplicative relationship between drive level and habit strength, a larger difference between the response strengths for long and short chains would he predicted for the high drive groups than for the low drive groups. Incidental to the main purpose of the experiment, the alley lengths were reversed at the end of training and subsequently a prefeeding trial was introduced.

Publication Date

1956

Journal Title

Proceedings of the Iowa Academy of Science

Volume

63

Issue

1

First Page

563

Last Page

567

Copyright

©1956 Iowa Academy of Science, Inc.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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