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REINFORCEMENT OF DISTRESS VOCALIZATION BY PRESENTATION OF AN IMPRINTED STIMULUS
Author(s) -
HOFFMAN HOWARD S.,
NEWBY VALERIE,
STRATTON JAMES W.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1973.tb01352.x
Subject(s) - reinforcement , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , distress , stimulus control , audiology , pecking order , imprinting (psychology) , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , social psychology , neuroscience , medicine , biochemistry , chemistry , evolutionary biology , gene , nicotine , biology
For one group of ducklings distress calls were reinforced using brief presentation of an imprinted stimulus as the response contingent (reinforcing) event. For a second group of ducklings presentation of an imprinted stimulus was contingent upon a more traditional operant (the pecking response). Regardless of which response was being reinforced, the same pattern ensued. Bursts of responding were separated by periods of little or no responding. When subsequently subjected to repeated presentation and withdrawal of the imprinted stimulus under conditions in which neither response was being reinforced, ducklings with a history of reinforcement for distress calls emitted many more calls than ducklings with a history of reinforcement for pole pecks.