Behaviors observed during S- in a simple discrimination learning task
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Judith Furber Rand (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
- Advisor
- Ernest Lumsden
Abstract: The behavioral criterion of "discrimination" is met when some type of differential responding is observed. Differential performance may be conceptualized as different strengths of a given response where strength is reflected in some quantitative dimension, e.g., rate of occurrence. In the present experiment, keypecking of pigeons was reinforced with food in the presence of a horizontal line (S+). Keypecking was never reinforced in the presence of a vertical line (S—). Discrimination training resulted in high overall rates of keypecking in the presence of the S+ and low overall rates in the presence of the S-. Generalization tests resulted in systematically decreasing overall keypecking rates as the value of the test stimuli were varied away from the S+ value.
Behaviors observed during S- in a simple discrimination learning task
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Dissertation
- Language: English
- Date: 1974
- Subjects
- Conditioned response
- Reinforcement (Psychology)
- Pigeons $x Behavior