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Water drinking behavior of albino rats was studied as a function of two schedules of food reinforcement and one schedule of shock avoidance. Considerable water drinking occurred concurrently with the food reinforced response but none with the shock avoidance response. This difference might be attributed either to the use of food instead of shock or to the presence of timing behavior in conjunction with the food schedules but not the shock schedules.
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This research was supported by Public Health Service Grant MH-06911-01.
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Malott, R.W., Cumming, W.W. A note on psychogenic polydipsia. Psychon Sci 2, 241 (1965). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03343426
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03343426