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Article: The CS-preexposure effect in conditioned taste-aversion learning in golden hamsters.
- Article from:
- The Journal of General Psychology
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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THE FAMILIARITY EFFECT in flavor preference refers to the observation that animals generally prefer to eat foods with familiar rather than unfamiliar flavors when they are allowed to choose between foods (Domjan, 1972; Hill, 1978). For example, young rats that are exposed to garlic flavor later show an enhanced preference for a garlic-flavored solution (Capretta & Rawls, 1974), and adult rats that are exposed to either coffee or vinegar flavor later prefer the familiar flavor to the unfamiliar flavor (Siegel, 1974). That enhanced preference for familiar flavors has been demonstrated in a variety of mammalian species (Bradshaw, 1986; Forkman, 1991; Mitchell, Beatty, & Cox, ...