Three factors involved in producing "compulsive eating" in rats.

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"This experiment investigates the relative importance of three variables in the production of a 'compulsive eating symptom' in rats. A factorially designed experiment subjected 24 animals to various combinations of two levels of training in eating small pellets of food in the apparatus, two levels of hunger, and two levels of electric shock. When electric shock was introduced, it was found that some rats ate heavily during that part of each minute when the shock was on. The combination of circumstances most likely to produce this phenomenon was as follows: the lesser amount of training in eating in the apparatus, the higher level of hunger, and the higher level of shock." (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)

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