The axis of resource orientation distinguishes between instrumental and
consummatory actions with respect to the processing of resources over time within a system.
SF pigs expressed much rooting and exploring as appetitive behaviors of foraging, which might stimulate the eating of the concentrate as a
consummatory behavior, as explained by the motivational model proposed by Hughes and Duncan (1988).
All events, that is, response, occurrence of the square for the
consummatory response, point increment, and point decrement, were accompanied by a brief sound through a speaker located on each desk in Spaces A and B.
Compared to unshifted animals that always receive access to the 4% solution, downshifted rats exhibit a sharp suppression of
consummatory behavior, followed by a recovery during the following 2-4 trials (e.g., Flaherty, 1996).
This alternation between noncontrol and hypercontrol, frequently seen in human behavior, can have some relationship with the opioid neurotransmission system and it includes
consummatory behaviors such as feeding, sexual behavior and addictive behaviors.
Once action has been initiated, the interpretant moves toward
consummatory behavior, that is, action that is completed by eating the pineapple.
Sexual motivation: A neural and behavioural analysis of the mechanisms underlying appetitive and
consummatory responses of male rats.
Opioid receptors modulate recovery from
consummatory successive negative contrast.
Sexual behavior of female rats is characterized by both appetitive and
consummatory components, named proceptivity and receptivity (Beach, 1976).
Consummatory behavior Behaviors related to completion of a goal.
The hypothalamus, which controls
consummatory behavior and basic drives related to food, water, sex, and temperature (Miller 1958), is a complex brain region with reciprocal connections to numerous structures, including the cortex, striatum, hippocampus, amygdala, cerebellum, and thalamus (Afifi and Bergman 1998).
Behavior systems are assumed to consist of a series of modules organized in a temporal spatial sequence, with general search behavior at one end of the continuum and focal search behavior and
consummatory behaviors at the other end.
