The effects of drive interaction were parametrically studied with pre-feeding, pre-watering, and percent body weight independently manipulated for two rats on a free-operant choice procedure. At a given body weight, choice-responding varied with manipulations of food and water; changes in body weight interacted with the effect of the pre-session deprivation operations.
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