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THE EFFECTS OF MODIFYING CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR ON THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE AUTOSHAPED PECKING RESPONSE IN PIGEONS
Author(s) -
Premock Mark,
Klipec William D.
Publication year - 1981
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.1981.36-277
Subject(s) - pecking order , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , neuroscience , shaping , stimulus control , audiology , developmental psychology , communication , cognitive psychology , medicine , biology , evolutionary biology , nicotine
The autoshaped responses of two debeaked pigeons that had developed modified eating behavior were compared to the autoshaped responses of three control subjects that ate grain normally. The control subjects exhibited keylight responding that was judged normal by two independent raters. The debeaked subjects pecked the key and ate grain with both normal and modified responses. The results of this study demostrate that an autoshaping procedure using grain as an appetitive stimulus may be used to establish a response that is not biologically preorganized.