The Effects of Alcohol on Behavior Maintained by Concurrent Schedules of Reinforcement.
Abstract
This report summarizes experiments on the effects of ethanol on behavior maintained by concurrent schedules of food reinforcement (choice schedules) with pigeons. Hungry pigeons could make either of two responses for food reward. The relative rate of making a response (choice proportions) approximately equalled the relative frequency of reinforcement for that response. Ethanol produced dose-dependent decrements in the absolute rate of responding (the choice rate) but had little systematic effect on the relative rate of responding (choice proportions). These data suggest that concurrent schedules could provide useful baselines for studying the effects of drugs on dissimilar reinforcers and for studying stimulus properties of drugs.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA015009
Entities
People
- Aaron J. Brownstein
- Cora Lee Jones
- Marilyn Guilkey
- Richard L. Shull
Organizations
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro