Abstract
An experiment was conducted testing the author's explanation of the discrepancy between results obtained by Hull and Leeper in a similar situation. Animals were run either hungry or thirsty to obtain the appropriate reward by making one response when hungry and another when thirsty. For all groups the reward was in the same goal-box. The first group (Leeper) had the goal-box divided with each side being accessible only if the animal had made the correct response initially. The second group (Hull) had the same goal-box for both rewards, but if the wrong path was taken the animal was prevented from reaching the goal by a block. The third group had the same goal-box for both rewards again, but the animal could reach the goal-box even if the wrong path was taken and discovered the unwanted reward in the goal-box. The results confirm the predictions made from the author's theory.
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