Although both highly (23.5 hr.) and moderately (18 hr.) water deprived rats preferred sucrose solutions to water at fixed locations, less thirsty animals developed higher preferences more rapidly. Amount of experience with each incentive but not concentration of sucrose solution affected the development of such preferences in the more thirsty rats.
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