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Twenty-four donor rats and 24 experimental rats received 64 trials in a straight runway, on a double-alternation cycle of reward and nonreward. The drug state of the donor Ss and the relationship of the reinforcement cycle for donor Ss to that for experimental Ss were factorially manipulated. Only the experimental Ss for which the donor and experimental S reinforcement cycles were correlated developed patterned responding, and then only when donor Ss were undrugged. The results were interpreted as supportive of the notion that the basis for odor-based patterning is an emotional response to frustrative nonreward.
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This experiment is based on a thesis submitted to the Graduate School, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, in partial fulfillment of the MA degree requirements by the first author under the direction of the second author. The research was supported by Research Grant NSF GS 30510 from the National Science Foundation.
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Howard, G.S., Mchose, J.H. The effects of sodium amobarbital on odor-based responding in rats. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 3, 185–186 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333438
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333438