“Free” versus “Forced” Exploration of a Novel Situation by Rats
- 1 March 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports
- Vol. 3 (1), 95-108
- https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1957.3.g.95
Abstract
On the basis of extensive analysis of observational and cinema records of rat behavior, the author concludes that: (1) exploratory behavior may serve to avoid a novel situation as well as to approach it; and (2) unless the animal is allowed to make this choice, it cannot be ascertained which variety of exploration is being exhibited.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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