Conditioned taste aversion produced by the oral ingestion of ethanol in the rat

Abstract

A taste-aversion paradigm was used to demonstrate that aversive consequences accompany the rapid oral ingestion of 5% (v/v) ethanol solutions. The learned taste aversion resulted from five self-administrations of alcohol mixed with an originally preferred flavor at a dosage of 1.51 g alcohol/kg body weight/day. Ingestion of larger doses of alcohol by control animals, however, did not produce any evidence of taste aversion. © 1975, Psychonomic Society, Inc.. All rights reserved.