Journal article
The role of the magazine-response contingency on signal-directed responding in pigeons
Learning and motivation, Vol.15(2), pp.156-172
1984
DOI: 10.1016/0023-9690(84)90027-4
Abstract
Three experiments used a procedure for directly delivering water into the thirsty pigeon's mouth to explore the role that the instrumental magazine contingency plays in autoshaped responding. Magazine training was accomplished by requiring birds to contact a “magazine” key when it was illuminated, in order to obtain intraoral injections of water. Other subjects received water injections independent of a magazine-response contingency. Subsequently, magazine-trained subjects showed a transient enhancement in responding to the illumination of another “signal” key, whether that stimulus was presented alone or paired with water delivery. The overall level of maintained autoshaped responding was little influenced by the instrumental magazine contingency, although the within-trial time course of signal-directed responding was affected. When illumination of the signal key preceded access to water only when the signal was not contacted, pigeons directed many responses toward the signal key. However, there was no evidence that the instrumental magazine contingency enhanced responding on this omission schedule of reinforcement. These results thus confirm a small, but measurable contribution of the magazine-response contingency to signal-directed responding; they fail to support the conclusion that the instrumental magazine contingency greatly affects the outcomes of autoshaping studies.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The role of the magazine-response contingency on signal-directed responding in pigeons
- Creators
- Edward A WassermanGary A Lucas
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Learning and motivation, Vol.15(2), pp.156-172
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/0023-9690(84)90027-4
- ISSN
- 0023-9690
- eISSN
- 1095-9122
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 1984
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984070852102771
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