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Early learning and retention of a conditioned taste aversion
Author(s) -
Ader Robert,
Peck Jack H.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
developmental psychobiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.055
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1098-2302
pISSN - 0012-1630
DOI - 10.1002/dev.420100305
Subject(s) - taste aversion , taste , weanling , psychology , preference , conditioning , affect (linguistics) , developmental psychology , medicine , communication , neuroscience , economics , microeconomics , mathematics , statistics
Weanling rats were trained on a taste aversion task and tested 60 days later using the single bottle and preference methods for assessing the retention of a taste aversion, and a competitive situation in which the CS was eventually substituted for plain water. Only the competitive situation showed the effects of the early taste aversion training. The results are discussed in terms of the conditioning and reactivation of adrenocortical steroid elevations and how these might affect subsequent retrieval.