Drive specificity and learning: the acquisition of a spatial response to food under conditions of water deprivation and food satiation.
1950
E L WALKER, and
M C KNOTTER, and
R L DeVALOIS
UI
MeSH Term
Description
Entries
D007858
Learning
Relatively permanent change in behavior that is the result of past experience or practice. The concept includes the acquisition of knowledge.
Phenomenography
D009042
Motivation
Those factors which cause an organism to behave or act in either a goal-seeking or satisfying manner. They may be influenced by physiological drives or by external stimuli.
A state of internal activity of an organism that is a necessary condition before a given stimulus will elicit a class of responses; e.g., a certain level of hunger (drive) must be present before food will elicit an eating response.
Drives
D005502
Food
Substances taken in by the body to provide nourishment.
Foods
D012527
Satiation
Full gratification of a need or desire followed by a state of relative insensitivity to that particular need or desire.
Satiations
D014868
Water Deprivation
The withholding of water in a structured experimental situation.
Learning the correct route through a maze to obtain reinforcement. It is used for human or animal populations. (Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 6th ed)