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The differential effects upon behavior of alcohol in tolerance acquisition were examined. Consistent with earlier findings using a treadmill and temporal maze, tolerance as assessed by changes in operant response duration was transferable to another operant task, and tolerance as measured by operant response duration was augmented by drug-related practice only in the rate of tolerance acquisition, not in the level of tolerance attained. However, with the use of response rate as the acquisition index, tolerance was not completely transferable to a different operant and drug-related practice augmented rate of acquisition as well as final level of tolerance attained. It is suggested that the response measure employed is a variable in the determination of the behavioral augmentation of alcohol tolerance in the rat.
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Crow, L.T., Higbee, M.W. Behavioral augmentation of tolerance to alcohol and the response measure. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 10, 5–8 (1977). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333531
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03333531