Intraoral self injection: II. The simulation of self-stimulation phenomena with a conventional reward

Abstract

The behavior of animals self-injecting themselves with a highly appetitive solution was strikingly similar to behavior of animals responding for ESB. Fast extinction, priming, and extinction without responding were demonstrated. ESB data was best simulated by intraoral self-injection animals on an ad lib food schedule whose behavior was maintained by the incentive quality of the food reward. © 1967, Psychonomic Press. All rights reserved.