Taste Aversion in Albino Rats Using Centrifugal Spin as an Unconditioned Stimulus

Abstract

3 experimental and 3 control albino rats were run under a 2-bottle, taste-aversion paradigm which used a lemonade solution as the conditioned stimulus and centrifugal spinning as the unconditioned stimulus. Conditioning was observed after the second pairing of conditioned and unconditioned stimuli. Support for the hypothesis that conditioning is facilitated by a preference for the conditioned stimulus was found. It was observed that as long as tap water was preferred to the conditioned stimulus solution the conditioned aversion did not appear.