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During acquisition of a hunger-motivated running response, on 50% of the trials, food reward was adulterated with quinine sulphate. This treatment resulted in inferior acquisition performance, but had no effect on resistance to extinction compared to a continuous reinforcement control.
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Supported by Grants GB-3772, from the National Science Foundation, and APA-72, from the National Research Council of Canada.
An erratum to this article is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/BF03335947.
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Wong, P.T.P., Scull, J. & Amsel, A. The effect of partial “quinine” reward on acquisition and extinction. Psychon Sci 18, 48–49 (1970). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03332327
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