The Effects of Environmental Change on Chicks’ Responses to a Familiar Stimulus
| Autor: | D. Hill, D. J. H. Burgess, Julia C. Berryman, D. Mann, Ann Taylor |
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| Rok vydání: | 1983 |
| Předmět: |
genetic structures
Environmental change Physiology 05 social sciences Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Stimulating environment Stimulus (physiology) 050105 experimental psychology Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Salience (neuroscience) Physiology (medical) Proximity seeking behaviour 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences sense organs Imprinting (psychology) Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery General Psychology |
| Zdroj: | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section B. 35:291-297 |
| ISSN: | 1464-1321 0272-4995 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14640748308400894 |
| Popis: | The purpose of the present experiments was to explore chicks’ proximity seeking behaviour in relation to imprinting objects in unfamiliar settings. Experiment I showed that chicks, which were individually imprinted on a stationary imprinting object, displayed reduced proximity seeking behaviour when tested in a pen smaller than the rearing pen. This finding confirmed earlier work on the effects of changed pen size. Experiment II used continuous and intermittent noise rearing and testing conditions, in all possible combinations, and a stationary imprinting object. Increased proximity seeking was found in conditions where the auditory environment was changed from rearing to testing, a result apparently opposite to that obtained in earlier work. It is suggested that the effect of environmental change on proximity seeking may vary with the modality in which change occurs and the salience of the imprinting object. |
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