Responder de Cães por Exclusão em Tarefas de Discriminação Condicional

Autor: Maria Clara de Freitas, Thaize de Souza Reis, Táhcita Medrado Mizael, Camila Domeniconi
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: Interação em Psicologia, Vol 16, Iss 2 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1981-8076
DOI: 10.5380/psi.v16i2.21938
Popis: This study trained the responding by exclusion in dogs, based on a conditional discrimination between dictated names and objects, and empirically evaluated the influence in that performance of human social cues (gestures directed to stimuli) towards the opposite stimulus. As a result, both animals showed rapid acquisition of control by the new stimulus, a pattern that persisted even after the inclusion of conflicting social cues toward the wrong stimulus (orally instructing the selection of S+, but pointing to the S-). The influence of conflicting social cues when the stimuli involved were familiar is clear, a pattern showed by the disruption of pre-established control. We discuss the relevance of this study in the comparison of different aspects of the environment on the behavior of dogs, and the need to include control probes for novelty in future research is emphasized. Keywords: exclusion; animal learning; conditional discrimination; dogs.
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