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SCHEDULE‐INDUCED POLYDIPSIA AS A FUNCTION OF FIXED INTERVAL LENGTH 1
Author(s) -
Falk John L.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1966.9-37
Subject(s) - polydipsia , interval (graph theory) , schedule , function (biology) , computer science , interval data , combinatorics , mathematics , medicine , endocrinology , data mining , biology , evolutionary biology , diabetes mellitus , operating system , measure (data warehouse)
Rats were trained to bar‐press for Noyes pellets on an FI schedule which was increased serially through several values from 2 sec to as high as 300 sec. Concurrently, water was freely available. As FI length was increased, the degree of polydipsia increased linearly to a maximum value.