Does the activity wheel measure goal-striving?
- 1 January 1955
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 48 (4), 272-277
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0042246
Abstract
The hypothesis that activity wheel running by rats is increased by feeding immediately after a 1-minute confinement in the wheel was not supported by this experiment, although there a slightly greater activity was recorded for animals given a food reward than for animals unrewarded.Keywords
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