[Parameters of searching activity in the structure of feeding, defensive, and drinking behavior (comparative...

Searching activity (SA) is the way to satisfy the need of overcoming and the mechanism of development of all forms of behavior under conditions of deficit of pragmatic information. SA is temporarily incorporated into the structure of the initial phase of all behavioral forms. The SA has energy and cognitive components that can be measured using Grigoriev's technique and his problem box. Quantitative and qualitative characteristics of SA are of prior significance in the structure of appetitive behavior and minimal significance in the structure of drinking behavior. Under described experimental conditions, in the structure of defensive behavior the values of the SA indices are mean.