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Pinkston, Jonathan W.; Ratzlaff, Kenneth L.; Madden, Gregory J.; Fowler, Stephen C. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
The reproducibility of experimental outcomes depends on consistent control of independent variables. In food-maintained operant performance, it is of utmost importance that the quantity of food delivered is reliable. To that end, some commercial food pellet dispensers have add-on attachments to sense the delivery of pellets. Not all companies,…
Descriptors: Integrity, Unit Costs, Behavioral Science Research, Food
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Iversen, Iver H. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
An inexpensive and automated method for presentation of olfactory or tactile stimuli in a two-choice task for rats was implemented with the use of a computer-controlled bidirectional motor. The motor rotated a disk that presented two stimuli of different texture for tactile discrimination, or different odor for olfactory discrimination. Because…
Descriptors: Olfactory Perception, Research Methodology, Training, Cues
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Udell, Monique A. R.; Wynne, C. D. L. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Dogs likely were the first animals to be domesticated and as such have shared a common environment with humans for over ten thousand years. Only recently, however, has this species' behavior been subject to scientific scrutiny. Most of this work has been inspired by research in human cognitive psychology and suggests that in many ways dogs are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Psychology, Animals, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research
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Alsop, Brent – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2004
Quantitative analyses of stimulus control and reinforcer control in conditional discriminations and delayed matching-to-sample procedures often encounter a problem; it is not clear how to analyze data when subjects have not made errors. The present article examines two common methods for overcoming this problem. Monte Carlo simulations of…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Short Term Memory, Animals, Animal Behavior