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BEHAVIORAL CONTROL BY AN IMPRINTED STIMULUS: LONG‐TERM EFFECTS 1
Author(s) -
Hoffman Howard S.,
Kozma Frederick
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1967.10-495
Subject(s) - imprinting (psychology) , peck (imperial) , stimulus (psychology) , stimulus control , psychology , reinforcement , communication , audiology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , cognitive psychology , social psychology , biology , medicine , biochemistry , gene , agronomy , nicotine
Newly hatched ducklings were exposed to imprinting procedures and subsequently trained to peck a key by presenting the imprinting stimulus as the reinforcing (response‐contingent) event. Individual ducklings then lived in the apparatus under an arrangement in which each peck produced a 15‐sec stimulus presentation. For all ducklings, key‐pecks tended to occur in bursts, and as the duckling matured, burst length decreased and the interval between bursts increased. However, even when subjects were 60 days old, some responses still occurred.