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The drinking rates in rats were measured by interresponse times for licking under shock-avoidance or shock-escape contingent licking conditions. Interresponse times were quite comparable under either set of shock-contingent drinking conditions with the modal interlick interval approximately 145 msec. Well-established principles of behavior maintained on fixed ratio schedules would predict such results.
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This research was supported in part from a NIH research grant (MN 14434-01) to the Texas Research Institute for Mental Sciences.
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Crawford, M.L.J. Shock-avoidance and shock-escape drinking in rats: Rate of licking. Psychon Sci 21, 304–305 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03330722
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