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Elicited responding in chain schedules.

D M Dougherty1, P Lewis

  • 1Ohio University, Department of Psychology, Athens 45701-2979.

Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
|November 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Pigeons exhibit elicited pecking in chain schedules, even when responses prevent reinforcement. This suggests that some pecking behavior in pigeons may not solely depend on conditioned reinforcement.

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Area of Science:

  • Behavioral Psychology
  • Animal Cognition

Background:

  • Chain schedules are used to study complex behavior in animals.
  • Conditioned reinforcement plays a key role in maintaining behavior in interval schedules.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate elicited pecking in pigeons within a two-component chain schedule.
  • To differentiate between behavior maintained by conditioned reinforcement and potentially elicited behavior.

Main Methods:

  • An omission procedure was used with pigeons under two conditions: response-dependent and omission-contingent.
  • Fixed-interval schedules were employed, where responses during the initial interval could omit the terminal component and reward.

Main Results:

  • Pigeons responded during over 70% of initial links in the omission-contingent condition.
  • Pigeons responded during over 90% of initial links in the response-dependent condition.
  • Responding rates generally aligned with percentage data.

Conclusions:

  • Responding in the omission condition suggests elicited pecking in pigeons.
  • This behavior may occur independently of contingent conditioned reinforcement in chain schedules.

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