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Escalation Of Wheel Running: An Animal Model Of Non-Drug Addiction, Ali Gheidi
Escalation Of Wheel Running: An Animal Model Of Non-Drug Addiction, Ali Gheidi
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Animal studies using the self-administration paradigm suggest that duration of drug access (Ahmed, 2005) and individual phenotype (Piazza, Deminiere, Le Moal and Simon, 1989) are important factors in the development of drug addiction. Wheel running in rats has been proposed as a model to study non-drug addictions (Eikelboom & Lattanzio, 2003). When first given ad lib wheel access, young male rats initially run at low levels (about 1000 wheel turns per night) and gradually increase this distance to high levels (about 5000 wheel turns per night) (Afonso and Eikelboom, 2003). Like with self-administration, duration of wheel access has been found …
Responsible Environmental Behaviour: A Test Of The Hines Model, Karen Hayward
Responsible Environmental Behaviour: A Test Of The Hines Model, Karen Hayward
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
As the number and salience of environmental problems have increased so have the number of studies which investigate environmentally responsible behaviour. Hines (1984), after conducting a meta-analysis of this literature, identified crucial variables which predict responsible environmental behaviour. While Hines has proposed a crude model which contains the variables thought to explain this type of behaviour, she has failed to hypothesize about the relationships that exist amongst many of these variables. The present study, therefore, was designed to develop a more elaborate model which attempts to explain some of these relationships, as well as predict responsible environmental behaviour. The sample …
The Impact Of Evaluation Feedback On Affective And Behavioural Reactions, Kathleen Joy Kitching
The Impact Of Evaluation Feedback On Affective And Behavioural Reactions, Kathleen Joy Kitching
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
A study was conducted to examine the impact of outcome (success or failure) and attribution information cues (none, internal, external) on affective and behavioural reactions to performance feedback. Following the theorizing of Weiner, Russell, and Lerman (1978, 1979) and Liden and Mitchell (1985), it was predicted that the outcome manipulation would determine a global affective reaction and that the attribution information cues manipulation would polarize these reactions. Sixty university undergraduate students were randomly assigned to success of failure on a practice and final creativity test and were induced to attribute their performance to internal or external causes depending on attribution …
On The Memory Code In Serial Feature-Positive Discriminations, Robert S. Mccann
On The Memory Code In Serial Feature-Positive Discriminations, Robert S. Mccann
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
The aim of the present research was to examine the nature of the memory code that contributes to performance in a serial feature-positive discrimination. In order to test the hypothesis that a reinforce expectancy based on the first-order association between feature element and reinforce defines the content of the code, different groups of rats received various forms of pretraining involving either the feature element or the common element, or both. For some groups the feature element was trained as a CS+, while for others it was trained as a CS-. In addition, some groups received training establishing the common element …