Spontaneous alternation in chicks using social reward
Autor: | Thomas Irons, Dennis C. Cogan, Jimmy F. Jones |
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Rok vydání: | 1979 |
Předmět: |
animal structures
Water Spontaneous alternation Motor Activity Choice Behavior Developmental psychology Behavioral Neuroscience Animal science Species Specificity Developmental Neuroscience Food Reinforcement Social embryonic structures Developmental and Educational Psychology Animals Alternation (formal language theory) Psychology Chickens Developmental Biology |
Zdroj: | Developmental Psychobiology. 12:285-290 |
ISSN: | 1098-2302 0012-1630 |
DOI: | 10.1002/dev.420120403 |
Popis: | Two experiments examining spontaneous alternation in young white Leghorn chicks are reported. In Experiment I chicks (20 per group) run in a T-maze for 4 trials to social reward displayed alternation of responses, whereas nonrewarded chicks did not alternate. In Experiment II socially rewarded chicks (20 per group) again showed reliable alternation of responses whereas food, water, and nonrewarded chicks did not alternate. These data support the premise that spontaneous alternation behavior has some phyletic generality under optimum conditions, although the mechanisms which control it may differ across species. |
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