Date of Award
9-1980
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Psychology
Supervisor
Professor B.G. Galef, Jr.
Abstract
Laboratory rats were habituated to drinking sucrose in one environment (the sucrose environment) and water in a second (the water environment). Subjects poisoned after drinking sucrose in the water environment subsequently exhibited a marked reduction in sucrose intake in the water environment. The same subjects did not exhibit depression of water consumption in the water environment and showed only a slight, nonsignificant reduction of sucrose intake in the sucrose environment. These results indicate that rates will form an aversion to a compound stimulus consisting of both gustatory and environmental components without forming an aversion to either the gustatory or environmental component in isolation.
Recommended Citation
Ihrig, Laurie H., "Conditioned Food Aversions: Illness-Induced Aversions to the Interaction of Gustatory and Nongustatory Cues" (1980). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 226.
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/226