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PERFORMANCE OF TWO SPECIES OF QUAIL ON BASIC REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULES 1
Author(s) -
Cloar F. Thomas,
Melvin Kenneth B.
Publication year - 1968
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.1968.11-187
Subject(s) - colinus , quail , bobwhite quail , coturnix coturnix , japonica , coturnix japonica , coturnix , reinforcement , biology , psychology , ecology , botany , social psychology
Two bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) and two Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were trained to peck a response key to obtain food. In general, performance on fixed ratio 20 and variable‐ and fixed‐interval 60‐sec schedules was comparable to the response patterns of other species under these schedules.