Adulteration of sucrose with citric acid: Effect on reinforcing value, examined using an adjusting-magnitude schedule of reinforcement.
Adjusting-magnitude schedule
Choice
Citric acid
Multiplicative hyperbolic model
Reinforcer value
Sucrose
Journal
Behavioural processes
ISSN: 1872-8308
Titre abrégé: Behav Processes
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7703854
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jan 2022
Jan 2022
Historique:
received:
04
08
2021
revised:
11
11
2021
accepted:
22
11
2021
pubmed:
6
12
2021
medline:
4
1
2022
entrez:
5
12
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
According to the Multiplicative Hyperbolic Model (MHM), the value of a reinforcer is an increasing hyperbolic function of its size (q). Recently reported results indicated that dilution of a sucrose solution reduced its reinforcing value by increasing the 'size-sensitivity' parameter of this function and reducing its maximum. The present experiment examined whether adulterating a sucrose solution with citric acid would have a similar effect on the hyperbolic function. Rats were trained under an adjusting-magnitude schedule in which a response on lever B delivered a fixed volume of a sucrose/citric-acid mixture, while a response on lever A delivered a sucrose solution, the volume of which, q
Identifiants
pubmed: 34864138
pii: S0376-6357(21)00235-7
doi: 10.1016/j.beproc.2021.104551
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Citric Acid
2968PHW8QP
Sucrose
57-50-1
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
104551Informations de copyright
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