The rat: a bibliography.

Abstract

This bibliography was started with the idea of annotating the references but it was found that space would not allow this unless only a small minority of references was included. We have taken the alternative of including the majority of references and compiling an analytical index.The bibliography covers the years 1924 to 1929 inclusive, except that the psychological references are complete for all years. Time and space has not allowed us to cover foreign journals. It is too much to hope that some errors have not occurred but we believe that they are not many. We trust that the bibliography will be of use to other scientists as well as psychologists.The following journals have been used in the compilation of this bibliography. In the majority of cases the files are complete to the end of 1929.

Alcohol and removal of reward. An analytical study of rodent maze behavior.

“…The increase in time and error scores found in this experiment is in line with the results of other investigations on the effects of alcohol (2,7). The previous study whose conditions agree most nearly with ours is one by Miles (9).…”

“…They were first brought up to a high level of performance by receiving enough massed practice each day to bring them to a criterion of two successive errorless trials and this was continued till they reached this criterion on the first two trials of two successive days. 2 Then each rat was given, by intraperitoneal injection, an amount of pure grain alcohol (in a 10 per cent distilled water solution) equal to one thousandth of the weight of its body. Immediately after the first injection they were allowed a practice trial in the maze.…”