California sea lion underwater auditory detection and variation of reinforcement schedules
作者:
Ronald J. Schusterman,
期刊:
The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(AIP Available online 1976)
卷期:
Volume 59,
issue 4
页码: 997-1000
ISSN:0001-4966
年代: 1976
DOI:10.1121/1.380928
出版商: Acoustical Society of America
关键词: 8050;8060
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
A sea lion (Zalophuscalifornianus) was trained to report the presence of a pure tone under water in a yes–no psychophysical procedure. The payoff matrix was varied by altering the probability of fish reinforcement [P(SR)] contingent on two classes of response—hits and correct rejections (CR). TheP(SR‖Hit) and theP(SR‖CR) were 1.00, 0.75, 0.50, and 0.25. In baseline, bothP(SR‖Hit) and theP(SR‖CR) were = 1.00. In the asymmetrical payoff matricesP(SR) was held constant at unity for one response and varied over three values for the other response. Thus, seven different payoff matrices were used. The sea lion showed rapid acquisition of a stable response bias independent of its ability to detect the underwater auditory signal. These results demonstrate that varying reinforcement probability is functionally equivalent to varying amount of reinforcement in the control of response bias in underwater signal detection by sea lions [see R. J. Schusterman, B. Barrett, and P. Moore, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 57, 1526–1532 (1975)].Subject Classification: [43]80.50, [43]80.60.
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