TY - JOUR
AU - Warden, C. J.
AB - This paper describes an ingenious apparatus for studying the effects in behavior of various drives, such as avoidance of painful stimuli, the hunger-drive, and the sex-drive, and describes improvements introduced in other motivation choice apparatus, notably that of Tsai. The former consists of an apparatus of four boxes or compartments: (1) an entrance or detention chamber; (2) an obstruction or pain-giving chamber with an electrically charged grid-floor and circuitous glass passage-way over said grid; (3) a release-from-pain chamber which also is used to afford time for the presenting of some motivating stimulus such as food or a member of the opposite sex in the fourth chamber; and (4) the motivating stimulus-chamber containing food or sex stimulus visible to the animal before it has reached the third compartment but not accessible to him until after he has emerged from chamber two and has entered chamber three. The visibility of the stimulus is afforded by a celluloid door to chamber four and accessibility is furnished by the animal's activating this door automatically as he steps out of chamber two on to a trap door in the floor of his runway of chamber three; this trap employs levers and pulleys and breaks an electric circuit which allows weights and pulleys to lift the door before the animal gets to it to approach the motivating stimulus. A short delay between confinement in compartment one and entrance to compartment two was effected by a hand-operated door between the two compartments. Some features of this apparatus are carried over into the modifications effected in Tsai's choice box. Intraorganic factors cannot as well be controlled with the choice box as with the first described apparatus. Ten bibliographical references to the apparatus are given.
TI - Standard apparatus for the study of animal motivation
JO - Journal of Comparative Psychology
DO - 10.1037/h0074447
DA - 1926-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-psychological-association/standard-apparatus-for-the-study-of-animal-motivation-zorMdKM0oC
SP - 361
EP - 382
VL - 6
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -