THE PERCHING RESPONSE AND THE LAWS OF ANIMAL TIMING

被引:20
作者
JASSELETTE, P
LEJEUNE, H
WEARDEN, JH
机构
[1] STATE UNIV LIEGE,5 BLVD RECTORAT,B-4000 LIEGE,BELGIUM
[2] UNIV MANCHESTER,MANCHESTER M13 9PL,LANCS,ENGLAND
来源
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-ANIMAL BEHAVIOR PROCESSES | 1990年 / 16卷 / 02期
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D O I
10.1037/0097-7403.16.2.150
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Homing pigeons were trained under differential-reinforcement-of-low-rate (DRL) or differential-reinforcement-of-response-duration (DRRD) schedules using a perching response. Schedule values ranged from 10 s to 70 s for DRL and from 12 s to 40 s for DRRD. In general, mean interresponse times or response durations were very close to the schedule requirement at all schedule values. A linear relation between mean response measure and schedule value described the data well, but power functions fared even better. The data also conformed well to the generalized Weber law; standard deviations of response measures varied as a linear function of the mean. Overall, the perching response produced data that conformed much more accurately to the schedule requirement-particularly at the longer schedule values-than did data from previous studies with both rats and pigeons. The results conformed well to the linear-type timing consistent with scalar timing theory.
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页码:150 / 161
页数:12
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