RESPONSE ACQUISITION BY SIAMESE FIGHTING FISH(BETTA SPLENDENS)WITH DELAYED VISUAL REINFORCEMENT
作者:
Kennon A. Lattal,
Barbara Metzger,
期刊:
Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
(WILEY Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 61,
issue 1
页码: 35-44
ISSN:0022-5002
年代: 1994
DOI:10.1901/jeab.1994.61-35
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
关键词: response acquisition;delay of reinforcement;visual reinforcers;mirror image;swimming;Siamese fighting fish
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
Male Siamese fighting fish,Betta splendens, swam through a ring in an aquarium, breaking a photocell beam and initiating an unsignaled, resetting delay interval. Following delays of 0 s, 10 s, or 25 s, a 15‐s mirror presentation released an aggressive display by the fish. Swimming through the ring increased in the absence of either a period of acclimatization to the reinforcer (analogous to magazine training when appetitive reinforcers are used) or explicit training of the response by the experimenters. Response rates were a decreasing function of delay duration. Other fish exposed to a schedule of response‐independent mirror presentations failed to acquire and maintain the response. The results demonstrate the robustness and generality of the phenomenon of response acquisition with delayed reinforcement. They further qualify earlier observations about behavioral mechanisms involved in the phenome
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