Journal article
Autoshaping chicks with heat reinforcement: The role of stimulus-reinforcer and response-reinforcer relations
Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, Vol.1(2), pp.158-169
04/1975
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.1.2.158
Abstract
In 6 experiments, investigated the effect of stimulus-reinforcer and response-reinforcer relations on autoshaping the keypeck of a total of 94 male White Leghorn and 98 male Hubbard Golden Comet chicks. The stimulus-reinforcer relation was studied by varying the correlation between response-key illumination and heat lamp activation. The response-reinforcer relation was studied either by preventing the Ss from pecking the lighted response key during training or by comparing the performance of Ss placed on a response-dependent nonreinforcement schedule with the performance of yoked control Ss. Results reveal that respondent (stimulus-reinforcer) factors were of primary importance in the acquisition, maintenance, and discriminative stimulus control of autoshaped keypecking. Operant (response-reinforcer) factors were implicated in the maintenance of keypecking once initiated. Autoshaped keypecking is thus under the influence of both respondent and operant conditioning factors. (35 ref)
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Autoshaping chicks with heat reinforcement: The role of stimulus-reinforcer and response-reinforcer relations
- Creators
- Edward A Wasserman - U IowaNorman B HunterKaren A GutowskiSue A Bader
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Animal behavior processes, Vol.1(2), pp.158-169
- DOI
- 10.1037/0097-7403.1.2.158
- NLM abbreviation
- J Exp Psychol Anim Behav Process
- ISSN
- 0097-7403
- eISSN
- 1939-2184
- Publisher
- American Psychological Association
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/1975
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070954802771
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