A Note on the Learning of 'Spontaneous' Activity

Seward, John P.; Pereboom, A. C.

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“…Hall (1958) has confirmed the finding by Finger and his associates and suggests that activity-wheel behavior is not a suitable indicator of drive strength when a deprivation-feeding cycle is used. Seward and Pereboom (1955) have reported similar results. Apparently, activitywheel running is subject to many of the same laws as other forms of instrumental behavior.…”

Section: Food Restrictionsupporting

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Need states and activity level.

Baumeister¹,

Hawkins²,

Cromwell³

1964

Psychological Bulletin

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Increases in activity level have often been used to imply the presence of a heightened drive state. Frequently, drive is also anchored on the antecedent side to a condition of need. Research literature which bears on the relationship between need state and activity level is reviewed. Specifically, activity level is discussed in terms of food, water, sex, and activity deprivation. It is suggested that associative interpretations of activity level may be more meaningful than drive interpretations.

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Section: Food Restrictionsupporting

confidence: 61%

Need states and activity level.

Baumeister¹,

Hawkins²,

Cromwell³

1964

Psychological Bulletin

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“…Why would the rats not quickly come to a stable level of daily running? An early suggestion that the increase in running results from the rats' learning to run (Seward & Pereboom, 1955) can be ruled out for several reasons. First, the scale and lengthy timeline of the increase suggest that learning is unlikely.…”

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Wheel access duration in rats: I. Effects on feeding and running.

Lattanzio

Eikelboom

2003

Behavioral Neuroscience

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The effects of 0-, 2-, and 24-hr wheel access on the pattern of running, feeding, and weight were explored over 24 days in 3 groups of 8 male rats. Both 2 and 24 hr of wheel access suppressed feeding by about 15% for about 8 days before feeding gradually returned to normal. Weight in these 2 groups was similar and was suppressed for the 24 days. Like the pattern seen with drug self-administration (S. H. Ahmed & G. F. Koob, 1998, 1999), running levels stayed low with short, 2-hr daytime wheel access, but with long, 24-hr access, rats' running escalated over days to chronically high levels. These results may have relevance for the understanding of addiction and anorexia nervosa.

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“…On the other hand, it is possible that even 3 hr. is too long a test period to prevent wheel running scores from being affected by self-reinforcement, as Seward and Pereboom (1955) have suggested. That is, perhaps with hungry rats some stimulus consequence of the running activity serves as immediate reinforcement for the activity.…”

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“…In recent years, however, a somewhat different view has been in evidence. Studies by Finger, Reid, and Weasner (1957), Hall (1958), Seward and Pereboom (1955), and Sheffield and Campbell (1954) suggest that activity occurs because the deprived animal is reinforced for being active. It is thus tempting to conclude that deprivation has no effect upon the activity level of the animal directly; it merely permits the reinforcement of activity to occur.…”

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Effects of prior deprivation, current deprivation, and weight loss on the activity of the hungry rat.

Duda¹,

Bolles²

1963

Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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During a single 24-hr, period without food, following different immediatelyprior deprivation conditions, 7 groups of naive rats were tested in activity wheels. The groups were under 0-, 24-, 48-, 72-, or 96-hr, immediately-prior continuous deprivation and some groups had, in addition, 10 days of experience with a cyclic 24-hr, feeding schedule just prior to the continuous deprivation. It was found that, apart from the effect that these different deprivation conditions had upon S's loss of body weight, they had no effect upon activity. Activity level was found to be predominantly a function of weight loss, and independent of how weight had been lost.

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A Note on the Learning of 'Spontaneous' Activity

Cited by 13 publications

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Need states and activity level.

Need states and activity level.

Wheel access duration in rats: I. Effects on feeding and running.

Effects of prior deprivation, current deprivation, and weight loss on the activity of the hungry rat.

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