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Work Ethic in Rats
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Lee, Jennifer E.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1264716770
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Year and Degree
2009, Master of Arts, University of Toledo, College of Arts and Sciences.
Abstract
This study examined the effects of different degrees of effort on presumptive subjective reward value in rats. Effort was varied by requiring different numbers of lever presses preceding discrimination tasks. In training, a simple simultaneous discrimination followed a single lever press after the presentation of an initial stimulus (S+, FR1 vs. S-, FR1) and a different simple simultaneous discrimination followed 10 lever presses to the initial stimulus (S+, FR10 vs. S-, FR10). An omnibus analysis of preferences in testing indicated that stimuli that followed greater effort were not preferred over stimuli that followed less effort in training. This replication of Clement, Feltus, Kaiser, and Zentall's (2000) study of pigeons investigated an effect analogous to the phenomenon known as justification of effort in social psychology.
Committee
Harvard Armus, PhD (Advisor)
Rickye Heffner, PhD (Committee Member)
Andrew Geers, PhD (Committee Member)
Pages
24 p.
Subject Headings
Psychology
Keywords
justification of effort
;
work ethic
;
animals
;
rats
;
learning
;
discrimination
;
stimulus preference
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Lee, J. E. (2009).
Work Ethic in Rats
[Master's thesis, University of Toledo]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1264716770
APA Style (7th edition)
Lee, Jennifer.
Work Ethic in Rats.
2009. University of Toledo, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1264716770.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Lee, Jennifer. "Work Ethic in Rats." Master's thesis, University of Toledo, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=toledo1264716770
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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