a test of the capacity of rats to keep up their equilibrium while climbing a sloping wire in effort to attain food.
TIGHTROPE TEST: "All the rats with raised insulin levels failed the tightrope test."
Cite this page: N., Sam M.S., "TIGHTROPE TEST," in PsychologyDictionary.org, April 29, 2013, https://psychologydictionary.org/tightrope-test/ (accessed March 21, 2023).
