Contextual control of conditional discrimination of the own behavior in pigeons
An experiment in which a pigeon was trained in contextual discrimination of its own behavior was carried out. When the experimental chamber was illuminated with a constant light, the pigeon had to peck on a red (or green) key in the sample component after having been pecking to the left (or to the r...
- Autores:
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García, Andrés
Benjumea, Santiago
- Tipo de recurso:
- Article of journal
- Fecha de publicación:
- 2008
- Institución:
- Universidad de San Buenaventura
- Repositorio:
- Repositorio USB
- Idioma:
- eng
- OAI Identifier:
- oai:bibliotecadigital.usb.edu.co:10819/25744
- Acceso en línea:
- https://hdl.handle.net/10819/25744
https://doi.org/10.21500/20112084.960
- Palabra clave:
- Contextual discrimination
conditional discrimination
proprioceptive stimulus
pigeons.
- Rights
- openAccess
- License
- International Journal of Psychological Research - 2008
| Summary: | An experiment in which a pigeon was trained in contextual discrimination of its own behavior was carried out. When the experimental chamber was illuminated with a constant light, the pigeon had to peck on a red (or green) key in the sample component after having been pecking to the left (or to the right). When the chamber was illuminated with an intermittent light, the reinforced sample-comparison sequences were the opposite. The subject learned the task in about 40 sessions and maintained high correct response ratios even though the reinforcement probability decreased from 1 to 0.2 after each correct trial. The results are discussed in terms of the kind of discriminative rule and the kind of hierarchic structure involved in the task. |
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