Abstract
The collateral water intake of albino rats was measured when the inter-pellet intervals in fixed-ratio and fixed-time schedules were equated. Fixed-ratio and fixed-time inter-pellet intervals were equated by dividing the average fixed-ratio session time of each subject by 150 (food pellets). The average inter-pellet interval obtained then defined the subsequent fixed-time schedule for each individual subject. Shifts to fixed-time schedules followed the completion of each fixed-ratio 20, 40, and 80 schedule. This procedure permitted an assessment of the extent to which excessive collateral drinking was associated with inter-pellet interval length or adventitious food reinforcement. For both the fixed-ratio and fixed-time schedules, drinking progressively increased as a function of increasing the duration of the inter-pellet interval and was a post-pellet event under the control of variables other than adventitious food reinforcement.
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