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Ten Sprague-Dawley females were trained for 10 days in a straight alley with no obstruction of approach to the goal (four 45-mg pellets). During testing the rats received two nonblocked (0-sec delay) and four blocked (4-, 12-, 20-, and 60-sec delay) trials per day for 12 days. Significant frustration effects were obtained for both running speeds and ingestion rates. Both the 4- and 12-sec delays resulted in significantly faster running speeds than the 0-sec delays, and all delay intervals resulted in significantly faster ingestion rates than the 0-sec delay. The 4-sec delay yielded the fastest mean running speed. Plots of mean running speeds and ingestion rates across delay intervals indicate that delays had a similar effect on both.
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The author wishes to express his appreciation to M. Ray Denny for his suggestions and for sponsoring and taking full editorial responsibility for this paper. Special thanks are also given to Barbara B. Bonney for her assistance in running subjects.
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Allen, J.L. Frustration effect with a long delay. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 185–186 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337162
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337162