d-Amphetamine and fixed-interval performance: effects of establishing the drug as a discriminative stimulus.
The effects of d-amphetamine were examined as a function of conditioning history. The compound (0.5 mg/kg) (1) increased the response rate of rats under a fixed-interval 60-sec schedule, (2) produced greater increases in responding under the fixed-interval schedule when drug administration had been explicitly paired with a fixed-ratio 20 schedule, and (3) decreased responding under the fixed-interval schedule when the drug had been paired with electric shock punishment. Randomly giving amphetamine before fixed-ratio or punishment sessions did not produce such modifications of drug effects under the fixed-interval schedule. These results, like earlier findings, indicate that drug effects can be modified by conditioning history.
D000818:Animals; D003216:Conditioning, Operant / Q000187:drug effects*; D003913:Dextroamphetamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D004597:Electroshock; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule
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