Pre-exposure to flavor and conditioned taste aversion: amphetamine and lithium reinforcers. Academic Article

abstract

• The experiment compared the influence of pre-exposure to a .1% saccharin CS on the conditioned taste aversion induced by lithium chloride (.15 M) and by d-amphetamine (2.0 mg/kg) in 44 female Long-Evans hooded rats. Nonpre-exposed rats displayed substantial lithium- and amphetamine-induced taste aversions while pre-exposed rats (6 days) displayed significant attenuation of taste aversion induced by lithium or amphetamine. Although the aversions induced by these reinforcers are anatomically and pharmacologically independent, manipulations of conditioning variables were not sufficient to dissociate these reinforcers.

authors

• Wellman, Paul

published proceedings

• Psychol Rep

author list (cited authors)

• Wellman, P. J.

citation count

• 1

complete list of authors

• Wellman, PJ

publication date

• April 1982

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Psychological Reports  Journal

keywords

• Animals
• Avoidance Learning
• Chlorides
• Conditioning, Classical
• Dextroamphetamine
• Extinction, Psychological
• Female
• Lithium
• Lithium Chloride
• Rats
• Rats, Inbred Strains
• Saccharin
• Taste

PubMed Central ID

• 6283577

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2466/pr0.1982.50.2.555

start page

• 555

end page

• 558

volume

• 50

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1982.50.2.555

user-defined tag

• 3 Good Health and Well-Being