DISCRIMINATION OF RESPONSE‐REINFORCER AND RESPONSE‐STIMULUS CONTINGENCIES IN PIGEONS
作者:
Peter W. D. Dodd,
期刊:
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 41,
issue 1
页码: 7-15
ISSN:0022-5002
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1901/jeab.1984.41-7
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: response‐reinforcer relations;response‐stimulus relations;stimulus control;key peck;pigeon
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
For three pigeons (Experiment 1), the presentation of a red response key ended with a food presentation either following two responses separated by at least 10 seconds (a DRL contingency) or following a 10‐second response‐free period (a DRO contingency). For three other birds (Experiment 2), a brief stimulus presentation terminated the DRL and DRO contingencies. A white side key was presented next and ended with response‐dependent food following one contingency and a timeout following the other. Since the contingency on the red key was unsignaled, differential responding on the white side key could indicate that the two response‐reinforcer relations had been discriminated. In Experiment 1, the red‐key duration and number of responses influenced white‐key responding following the contingency that predicted the timeout. A response‐initiated DRO was instated, and the influence of red‐key duration and response number on white‐key responding was diminished. In both experiments, the 10‐second time criterion in both contingencies was varied from 0.34 second to 10 seconds. Even at short time intervals the DRO and DRL contingencies were readily discriminated. Pigeons tended to class the two contingencies according to a rule that did not involve simply stimulus duration, numbers of responses, or even the time between a response
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