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In the first four experiments, it was found that aversions to saccharin solution produced by contingent poisoning were similar regardless of whether the rats had been trained under the test deprivation or under a different deprivation; the two deprivation states used were thirst and satiety. In Experiment 5, rats were poisoned after drinking grape juice while hungry or poisoned after drinking milk while thirsty, but they were not poisoned after grape-thirst or milk-hunger combinations. In abstract terms, poisoning occurred after AX and BY stimulus combinations, but did not occur after AY and BX combinations. There was some learning under these discrimination conditions.
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Supported by the National Research Council of Canada. Conversations with David Booth and Eric Holman influenced the content of this paper.
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Revusky, S., Pohl, R.W. & Coombes, S. Flavor aversions and deprivation state. Animal Learning & Behavior 8, 543–549 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03197767
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