Schedule-Induced Choice of Water Versus Alcohol

Keehn, J. D.; Coulson, Grant

doi:10.1007/bf03394322

Cited by 8 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 10 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…The results of the two-bottle choice in Experiment 3 are also consistent with data on schedule-induced alcohol consumption when the rat is given a choice between alcohol and water (Keehn & Coulson, 1975). On such two-bottle exposures, rats often consume none of the alcohol solution, whereas the same solution is consumed when it is the only solution available.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

The effects of conditioned taste aversions on the acquisition and maintenance of schedule-induced polydipsia

Riley

Lotter

Kulkosky

1979

Animal Learning & Behavior

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

The effects of conditioned taste aversions on the acquisition and maintenance of schedule-induced polydipsia

Riley

Lotter

Kulkosky

1979

Animal Learning & Behavior

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

“…For example, an organism might prefer alcohol to plain water but not to flavored water (de Witte, 1984). More perplexing is the observation that an organism may prefer alcohol in the ad libitum context but prefer water in the schedule-induced polydipsia situation (Keehn & Coulson, 1975).…”

Section: The Free-behavior Situation: Drug Preferencementioning

confidence: 99%

Animal Learning and Motivation and Addictive Drugs

Logan¹

1993

Psychol Rep

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Highlights of a systematic analysis of the abstracts of over 1700 publications dealing with addictive drugs (primarily alcohol) in the context of animal learning and motivation are summarized under two main headings. The behavioral effects of drugs vary with the nature of the drug, the dosage, and the behavioral baseline; behavioral tolerance frequently results from continued practice in the drug state. The paradigmatic effects show that drugs can function effectively as conditional stimuli, unconditional stimuli, responses, and reinforcers. As a result, drug habits develop their own motivational support, leading to conditioned tolerance and conditioned addiction. It is contended that principles of animal behavior can provide a basis for a theory of human drug use and abuse, but that voluntary control of addictive behavior requires uniquely human cognitive processes.

show abstract

“…This means that schedule-induced alcohol intake is unlikely to be due to reduction of stress even if it is one of the rare models in which animals drink themselves to the point of alcohol dependence. More direct proof of this lack of association between stress and alcohol consumption is the observation that rats prefer 9% alcohol to water in their home cage chose water instead of alcohol when exposed to an intermittent distribution of food with both alcohol and water available (Keehn and Coulson, 1975). To state that the schedule-induced drinking paradigm has no univocal relationship to stress does not imply that it is not a useful model for studying alcoholism.…”

Section: Stress and Displacement Behaviormentioning

confidence: 99%

Alcoholism: a psychobiological perspective

Dantzer¹,

Ollat

1991

Eur. psychiatr.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

SummaryLike many phenomena which are located at the intersection between different disciplines, the complexity of alcoholism is difficult to comprehend, especially at an experimental level. In particular, pharmacological approaches towards alcoholism have emphasized the anxiety- and stress-reducing properties of ethanol, in spite of the limited clinical support for this hypothesis. In the same manner, the phenomenon of behavioral tolerance has mainly been approached from a pharmacological perspective, with little or no interest paid to the sensory stimuli possibly involved in the conditioning of drug effects. Comparative studies in animals selected for alcohol intake have concentrated on the biological responses to alcohol and have not investigated the possibility of genetic differences in sensitivity to environmental stimuli. Based on recent progress in the elucidation of the individual and environmental factors which play a key role in the development and stabilization of abnormal behavior in conflict situations, it is proposed that alcoholism is the result of a predisposition to react in a certain manner to environmental stimuli and social influences which is strengthened by the pharmacological effects of ethanol. The manner in which this hypothesis can be put to test has been discussed.

show abstract

Schedule-Induced Choice of Water Versus Alcohol

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

The effects of conditioned taste aversions on the acquisition and maintenance of schedule-induced polydipsia

The effects of conditioned taste aversions on the acquisition and maintenance of schedule-induced polydipsia

Animal Learning and Motivation and Addictive Drugs

Alcoholism: a psychobiological perspective

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About