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. 1976 Sep;26(2):257-67.
doi: 10.1901/jeab.1976.26-257.

Schedule-induced drinking as a function of interreinforcement interval in the rhesus monkey

J D Allen, D R Kenshalo

Schedule-induced drinking as a function of interreinforcement interval in the rhesus monkey

J D Allen et al. J Exp Anal Behav. 1976 Sep.

Abstract

Lever presses by two rhesus monkeys produced food pellets that were assigned by both an ascending and descending series of fixed-interval schedules whose values varied between 1 and 512 sec. The amount of schedule-induced drinking was bitonically related to interreinforcement interval, reaching a maximum at approximately 120 sec and declining at longer fixed intervals. The relation between water intake and interreinforcement interval was complexly related to two drinking measures: (1) the probability of drinking following a pellet and (2) the amount drunk per bout. Drinking rate was also bitonically related to interreinforcement interval.

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