Pre-crastination in the pigeon
| Autor: | Edward A. Wasserman, Stephen J. Brzykcy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Psychological science
Motivation Time Factors Behavior Animal media_common.quotation_subject Procrastination Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Choice Behavior Task (project management) Economic advantage Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Reward Developmental and Educational Psychology Animals Conditioning Operant Animal behavior Psychology Columbidae Social psychology Behavioral adaptation media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychonomic bulletinreview. 22(4) |
| ISSN: | 1531-5320 |
| Popis: | Procrastination is the tendency to delay initiating or completing tasks. Rosenbaum et al. (Psychological Science, May 8, 2014) recently documented the opposite of procrastination: pre-crastination, the tendency to begin or to finish tasks as soon as possible. We devised a simple two-alternative forced-choice task, in which pigeons could choose to switch response location either sooner or later in a sequence of actions eventuating in food reward. Even though there was no economic advantage for doing so, pigeons chose to switch response location sooner rather than later in the sequence, showing pre-crastination to be quite general. Pre-crastination thus joins other anticipatory learning phenomena in challenging rational or optimal accounts of behavioral adaptation. |
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