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The purpose of the present investigation was to assess the roles of drive and incentive upon the successive discrimination reversal performance of rats. Two levels of drive, high and low, and two values of incentive, large and small, were imposed upon four groups of Ss in a factorial design. All training and measurement were conducted in a simultaneous discrimination General Testing Apparatus. An overall analysis of variance indicated significant main effects of incentive and problems. The results were interpreted as supporting the hypothesis that incentive exerts a significant and persistent effect upon reversal set performance in rats.
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This research was supported in part by NSF Grant 281-044-11 awarded to Frank A. Logan.
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Feldman, J.M. Successive discrimination reversal performance as a function of level of drive and incentive. Psychon Sci 13, 265–266 (1968). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03342516
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