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EFFECTS OF REINFORCEMENT AMOUNT ON ATTACK INDUCED UNDER A FIXED‐INTERVAL SCHEDULE IN PIGEONS

 

作者: Raymond C. Pitts,   E. F. Malagodi,  

 

期刊: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior  (WILEY Available online 1996)
卷期: Volume 65, issue 1  

页码: 93-110

 

ISSN:0022-5002

 

年代: 1996

 

DOI:10.1901/jeab.1996.65-93

 

出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd

 

关键词: schedule‐induced attack;schedule‐induced behavior;reinforcement amount;fixed‐interval schedule;key peck;pigeons

 

数据来源: WILEY

 

摘要:

Key pecking by pigeons was maintained on a chained fixed‐interval 4‐min (12‐min for 1 subject) fixed‐ratio 1 schedule of food presentation. Attacks toward a restrained and protected conspecific were recorded. In the first experiment, the amount of food presented per interval was manipulated across phases by varying the number of fixed ratios required in the terminal link of the chain. Measures of attack for all pigeons during the fixed‐interval component increased monotonically as a function of food amount. In the second experiment, two different food amounts alternated within each experimental session under a multiple schedule. For both pigeons in this experiment, measures of attack were higher during the component that delivered the larger food amount per interval. The differences in levels of attack induced by the two food amounts in Experiment 2, however, were not as great as in Experiment 1; apparently this was because attack during the first interval of each component was controlled in part (P‐5626) or entirely (P‐7848) by the reinforcement amount delivered at the end of the previous component. Attack was also a function of the location of the interfood interval within the session. For both pigeons, attack tended to decrease throughout the session. The results of both experiments suggest that attack is an increasing function of reinforcement amount under fixed‐interval schedules, but that this function may be influenced by the manner in which reinforcement amount is manipulated, by the duration of the interfood interval, and by the location of the interfood interval within the experimental session. In general, these results are compatible with theories of induced attack and other schedule‐induced behavior that emphasize aversive aftereffects of reinforce

 

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