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. 1975 Mar;23(2):223–232. doi: 10.1901/jeab.1975.23-223

Schedule-induced drinking as a function of percentage reinforcement1

Joseph D Allen, Joseph H Porter, Rachelle Arazie
PMCID: PMC1333343  PMID: 16811843

Abstract

Drinking was recorded in rats while lever pressing was maintained on a series of percentage reinforcement schedules in which the per cent of 1-min fixed intervals terminating with food was 100, 90, 30, 70, 10, 50, and 100%. Intervals in which a pellet was omitted were terminated by brief light flash and click stimuli that were also correlated with food presentations. Drinking failed to develop in five of six subjects following intervals in which the brief stimuli were presented regardless of percentage reinforcement. Postpellet drinking, which followed intervals terminated with pellet delivery, however, increased in both duration and amount ingested per interval as percentage reinforcement was systematically decreased. The increase in postpellet drinking above that produced by 100% reinforcement was interpreted as an analogue of the positive-contrast effect observed with food-reinforced operants.

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