CONDITIONED SUPPRESSION OF BAR‐PRESSING BEHAVIOR BY STIMULI ASSOCIATED WITH DRUGS 1

Abstract

Ten naive male albino rats were trained to press a bar under a variable‐interval 30‐sec schedule with water as the reinforcer in two experiments. This behavior was disrupted by chlorpromazine in Experiment I (two rats) and by lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) in both Experiment I (two rats) and Experiment II (six rats). The administration of the drug was paired with an originally neutral white light. After several pairings with either drug, the light also depressed behavior. When the light was no longer paired with drug, the depression effect extinguished much faster than is usually observed in conditioned suppression studies.