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CUE‐PRODUCING BEHAVIOR IN THE CAPUCHIN MONKEY DURING REVERSAL, EXTINCTION, ACQUISITION, AND OVERTRAINING 1
Author(s) -
D'Amato M. R.,
Etkin Michael,
Fazzaro James
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.1968.11-425
Subject(s) - overtraining , extinction (optical mineralogy) , reinforcement , psychology , discrimination learning , animal learning , cognitive psychology , avoidance learning , communication , audiology , neuroscience , social psychology , biology , medicine , paleontology , athletes , physical therapy
In a two‐choice discrimination situation, a cue‐producing response produced the discriminanda for 0.05 sec. The cue‐producing responses beyond those normally necessary to identify the discriminanda thus provided only redundant information. Two of the four Capuchin monkeys studied showed a large increase in cue‐producing responses during reversal learning and extinction, and they reversed much faster than the two whose cue‐producing responses showed little increase. During acquisition of a difficult discrimination, the cue‐producing responses of the first two subjects reached a high level and during overtraining gradually reduced to their initial low level. The results were related to Wyckoff's theory of observing behavior and to the notions of uncertainty, reduction, and lack of information as extensions of the concepts of reinforcement and motivation.