Cue Effects of Drive and Reward as a Function of Discrimination Difficulty: Evidence Against the Yerkes-Dodson Law.

Hochhauser, Mark; Fowler, Harry

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Publication Date: 1975

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Cue Effects of Drive and Reward as a Function of Discrimination Difficulty: Evidence Against the Yerkes-Dodson Law

Hochhauser, Mark; Fowler, Harry

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 104, 3, 261-69, Jul 75

To investigate the possible cue (stimulus) as opposed to motivational functions of drive and reward, this study assessed the effects of problem difficulty, reward magnitude, and drive level on the performance of rats in visual discrimination tasks entailing both choice and speed measures. (Editor/RK)

Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Cues, Experimental Psychology, Flow Charts, Research Methodology, Rewards, Tables (Data), Visual Discrimination

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