One Recent Study Placed Rats on a Schedule of No

question 221

Multiple Choice

One recent study placed rats on a schedule of no food for 12 hours, followed by an opportunity to eat a sweet, syrupy liquid. When the researchers then deprived the rats of this syrupy liquid, the rats

• A) refused to eat any other type of food.
• B) showed a pattern of behavior similar to that of morphine withdrawal.
• C) became highly aggressive toward one another.
• D) developed what appears to be like anorexia, and many died.

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