Readiness to eat: Effects of age, sex, and weight loss.
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- 1 August 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 60 (1) , 88-92
Abstract
Readiness test consists in determining how long S takes to start eating food available in a novel situation. Readiness is the reciprocal of latency to eat. Male and female rats of 9 different ages were tested after a single deprivation of either short, medium, or long duration. Readiness was apprixmately directly proportional to S's percentage body weight loss adjusted for the projected growth over deprivation period. This relationship held over an extremely wide range of deprivation conditions, all ages, and both sexes. In addition, actual weight loss, percentage weight loss, and readiness to eat all followed, within certain limits, the same increasing power function of deprivation time. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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