Performance on a Black-White Discrimination Problem in a Water Maze as Influenced by Water Temperature and Swimming Ability

Instrumental escape conditioning in a water tank: Effects of variations in drive stimulus intensity and reinforcement magnitude.

“…intensity is manipulated independently by means of the differential temperature between the alley and a separate goal tank. Some of the advantages of utilizing water temperature as a means of motivating animal Ss have been pointed out previously (Waller, Waller, & Brewster, 1960;Woods & Holland, 1961).…”