This study tested the hypothesis that the depression of barpressing following hypertonic NaCl stomach loads is due to their producing unconditioned drive stimuli. It was predicted that rats given a response-depressing load repeatedly would show less depression on successive occasions as the novel drive stimuli became conditioned to the response. The results did not support this prediction.
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