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Within-session meal-size effects on induced drinking.

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Reid, AK; Staddon, JE
Published in: Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
September 1987

As a control for the effects of session duration and hunger on the relation between food magnitude and induced drinking, four food-deprived rats were exposed to a variable-time 50-s schedule of food delivery in which the size of each food delivery varied randomly within sessions. Food-related behavior and schedule-induced drinking per opportunity were examined as functions of meal size and postfood time. All rats showed an inverted-U-shaped relation between drinking per opportunity and meal size. This relation was caused by variation in the percentage of intervals that contained drinking and by variation in the number of drinking bouts per interval, rather than by bout duration or by the amount of drinking within those intervals that actually contained drinking. Head-in-feeder time increased linearly with meal size. Schedule-induced drinking was entrained by food delivery in 3 of 4 subjects; the entrainment was due to regulation of the starting time of each drinking bout rather than to regulation of bout duration.

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Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

September 1987

Volume

48

Issue

2

Start / End Page

289 / 301

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Factors
  • Reinforcement, Psychology
  • Reinforcement Schedule
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Rats
  • Female
  • Eating
  • Drinking
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Animals
 

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Reid, A. K., & Staddon, J. E. (1987). Within-session meal-size effects on induced drinking. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 48(2), 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1987.48-289
Reid, A. K., and J. E. Staddon. “Within-session meal-size effects on induced drinking.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 48, no. 2 (September 1987): 289–301. https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1987.48-289.
Reid AK, Staddon JE. Within-session meal-size effects on induced drinking. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1987 Sep;48(2):289–301.
Reid, A. K., and J. E. Staddon. “Within-session meal-size effects on induced drinking.Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, vol. 48, no. 2, Sept. 1987, pp. 289–301. Epmc, doi:10.1901/jeab.1987.48-289.
Reid AK, Staddon JE. Within-session meal-size effects on induced drinking. Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior. 1987 Sep;48(2):289–301.

Published In

Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior

DOI

EISSN

1938-3711

ISSN

0022-5002

Publication Date

September 1987

Volume

48

Issue

2

Start / End Page

289 / 301

Related Subject Headings

  • Time Factors
  • Reinforcement, Psychology
  • Reinforcement Schedule
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Rats
  • Female
  • Eating
  • Drinking
  • Behavioral Science & Comparative Psychology
  • Animals