Effect of Thirst Drive Conditioning on Shuttle Performance by Satiated Rats

1966 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert M. Swanson ◽  
John F. Brackmann ◽  
Eleanor M. Dublirer ◽  
Donald J. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Thirst Drive

Effect of the secondary reinforcing agents on the primary thirst drive.

1951 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Charles W. Simon ◽  
Delos D. Wickens ◽  
Ursula Brown ◽  
Lewis Pennock
Keyword(s):  
Thirst Drive ◽  
Secondary Reinforcing

Cholinergic Tracing of a Central Neural Circuit Underlying the Thirst Drive

Science ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 138 (3541) ◽  
pp. 691-693 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Fisher ◽  
J. N. Coury
Keyword(s):  
Neural Circuit ◽  
Thirst Drive

Motivational Effects of Stimuli Paired with Buildup of the Thirst Drive

1969 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-337
Author(s):  
Albert M. Swanson ◽  
Glenn D. Richmond
Keyword(s):  
Control Group ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
Control Environment ◽  
Control Groups ◽  
And Control ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Thirst Drive

Albino rats were adapted to a distinctive conditioning environment over a 4-day period and were then divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group experienced 23 hr. of water privation in the conditioning environment on each of 14 successive days. The control group experienced only the first ½ hr. of privation in the conditioning environment and spent the rest of each privation period in a control environment. During subsequent tests in the conditioning environment, with Ss satiated, the experimental Ss consumed significantly more water than the control Ss. A replication produced similar results and indicated that the effect could be mediated by general, as well as specific, characteristics of the conditioning environment. The relation of the results to the conditioned drive hypothesis is discussed, and the direction of continuing research is indicated.

Studies of the effect of change of drive: II. From hunger to different intensities of a thirst drive in a T-maze.

1952 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Howard H. Kendler ◽  
Seymour Levine ◽  
Edward Altchek ◽  
Harold Peters
Keyword(s):  
Thirst Drive

Irrelevant Thirst Drive and Light Aversion

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 899-904 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Dachowski
Keyword(s):  
Bright Light ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Complex Manner ◽  
Better Than ◽  
Extinction Treatment ◽  
Thirst Drive

In two experiments satiated female albino rats learned to press a bar to turn off a bright light, and performance was measured with 0 or 24 hours thirst added on two test days. The 28 Ss of Exp. I received extinction treatment on the test days; 14 Ss of Exp. II continued dark-rewarded bar pressing on the test days. Added thirst had no over-all effect in Exp. I and decreased performance in Exp. II. Ss extinguished with the light always on performed better than those with the light always off, and the amount of decrease from the first to the second extinction day depended in a complex manner on both lighting and thirst conditions. Thus, Hull's prediction of energization by irrelevant drives is not confirmed. The data were considered in relation to Estes' stimulus theory of drive.

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