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APPLICATION OF BOWER'S ONE‐ELEMENT MODEL TO PAIRED‐ASSOCIATE LEARNING BY PIGEONS
Author(s) -
Rodewald H. Keith
Publication year - 1973
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.1973.19-219
Subject(s) - pecking order , standard deviation , statistics , psychology , standard error , artificial intelligence , mathematics , arithmetic , communication , computer science , biology , evolutionary biology
Bower's (1961) all‐or‐none model of human paired‐associate learning was applied to individual data supplied by three pigeons. When the center one of three keys was illuminated with red light or with three white dots in a vertical array on a black ground, pecking on the left key was reinforced. When the center key was lighted green or with a horizontal array of three white dots on a black ground, pecking on the right key was reinforced. The left and right keys were illuminated with white light. The task was considered to be analogous to learning a paired‐associate list of four pairs involving four stimulus items and two response items. The model was evaluated by comparing the following model predictions with values obtained from each animal: trials‐to‐criterion, standard deviation of trials‐to‐criterion, standard deviation of errors‐to‐criterion, mean error runs, mean error runs of lengths one to four, and autocorrelations of errors of lags one to three. Most of the predictions based upon the model were in close agreement with the obtained data.