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Harris, Aimee; Foster, T. Mary; Levine, Joshua; Temple, William – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Domestic hens responded under multiple fixed-ratio fixed-ratio schedules with equal fixed ratios. One component provided immediate reinforcement and the other provided reinforcement after a delay, signaled by the offset of the key light. The components were presented quasi-randomly so that all four possible transitions occurred in each session.…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Animal Behavior, Experiments, Stimuli
Urcuioli, Peter J.; Swisher, Melissa – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Three experiments evaluated whether the apparent reflexivity effect reported by Sweeney and Urcuioli (2010) for pigeons might, in fact, be transitivity. In Experiment 1, pigeons learned symmetrically reinforced hue-form (A-B) and form-hue (B-A) successive matching. Those also trained on form-form (B-B) matching responded more to hue comparisons…
Descriptors: Animals, Reinforcement, Conditioning, Responses
Berg, Mark E.; Grace, Randolph C. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Six pigeons responded in a visual category learning task in which the stimuli were dimensionally separable Gabor patches that varied in frequency and orientation. We compared performance in two conditions which varied in terms of whether accurate performance required that responding be controlled jointly by frequency and orientation, or…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Reinforcement, Animals
Lazareva, Olga F. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
In a typical transposition task, an animal is presented with a single pair of stimuli (for example, S3+S4-, where plus and minus denote reward and nonreward and digits denote stimulus location on a sensory dimension such as size). Subsequently, an animal is presented with a testing pair that contains a previously reinforced or nonreinforced…
Descriptors: Animals, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Novelty (Stimulus Dimension)
Hutsell, Blake; Jacobs, Eric A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
We investigated changes in bias (preference for one response alternative) in signal detection when relative reinforcer frequency for correct responses varied across sessions. In Experiment 1, 4 rats responded in a two-stimulus, two-response identification procedure employing temporal stimuli (short vs. long houselight presentations). Relative…
Descriptors: Identification, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Classification
Urcuioli, Peter J.; Swisher, Melissa – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
Pigeons trained on successive AB symbolic matching show emergent BA antisymmetry if they are also trained on successive AA oddity and BB identity (Urcuioli, 2008, Experiment 4). In other words, when tested on BA probe trials following training, they respond more to the comparisons on the reverse of the nonreinforced AB baseline trials than on the…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Experiments, Stimuli
Kelley, Michael E.; Lerman, Dorothea C.; Fisher, Wayne W.; Roane, Henry S.; Zangrillo, Amanda N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Signals during delays to reinforcement may lessen reductions in responding that typically occur when there is a delay between a response and its reinforcer. Sparse applied research has been devoted to understanding the conditions under which responding may be maintained when delays to reinforcement are introduced. We evaluated the extent to which…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Responses
Pinkston, Jonathan W.; Lamb, R. J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
When given to pigeons, the direct-acting dopamine agonist apomorphine elicits pecking. The response has been likened to foraging pecking because it bears remarkable similarity to foraging behavior, and it is enhanced by food deprivation. On the other hand, other data suggest the response is not related to foraging behavior and may even interfere…
Descriptors: Animals, Brain, Biochemistry, Experiments
da Silva, Stephanie P.; Lattal, Kennon A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
The effects of reinforcer magnitude and response requirement on pigeons' say choices in an experimental homologue of human say-do correspondence were assessed in two experiments. The procedure was similar to a conditional discrimination procedure except the pigeons chose both a sample stimulus (the say component) and a comparison stimulus that…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Animals, Animal Behavior
Jimenez-Gomez, Corina; Shahan, Timothy A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2012
An extensive body of research using concurrent-chains schedules of reinforcement has shown that choice for one of two differentially valued food-associated stimuli is dependent upon the overall temporal context in which those stimuli are embedded. The present experiments examined whether the concurrent chains procedure was useful for the study of…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Intervals, Food
Urcuioli, Peter J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
This research investigated the source of an ostensible reflexivity effect in pigeons reported by Sweeney and Urcuioli (2010). In Experiment 1, pigeons learned two symmetrically reinforced symbolic successive matching tasks (hue-form and form-hue) using red-green and triangle-horizontal line stimuli. They differed in their third concurrently…
Descriptors: Identification, Animals, Training, Reinforcement
Hirai, Mariko; Okouchi, Hiroto; Matsumoto, Akio; Lattal, Kennon A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Undergraduates were exposed to a series of reinforcement schedules: first, to a fixed-ratio (FR) schedule in the presence of one stimulus and to a differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) schedule in the presence of another (multiple FR DRL training), then to a fixed-interval (FI) schedule in the presence of a third stimulus (FI baseline),…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Undergraduate Students, Responses, Stimuli
McDevitt, Margaret A.; Williams, Ben A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Pigeons were presented with a concurrent-chains schedule in which the total time to primary reinforcement was equated for the two alternatives (VI 30 s VI 60 s vs. VI 60 s VI 30 s). In one set of conditions, the terminal links were signaled by the same stimulus, and in another set of conditions they were signaled by different stimuli. Choice was…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Reinforcement, Conditioning, Animals
Milo, Jessie-Sue; Mace, F. Charles; Nevin, John A. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Previous research has demonstrated that factors such as reinforcer frequency, amount, and delay have similar effects on resistance to change and preference. In the present study, 4 boys with autism made choices between a constant reinforcer (one that was the same food item every trial) and a varied food reinforcer (one that varied randomly between…
Descriptors: Resistance to Change, Reinforcement, Males, Autism
Boutros, Nathalie; Davison, Michael; Elliffe, Douglas – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2011
Conditioned reinforcer effects may be due to the stimulus' discriminative rather than its strengthening properties. While this was demonstrated in a frequently-changing choice procedure, a single attempt to replicate in a relatively static choice environment failed. We contend that this was because the information provided by the stimuli was…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Stimuli, Reinforcement, Animals