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species-characteristic behavior that becomes more and more invasive during operant training.
Breland & Breland
racoons, food, rubbing coins... |
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approaching a stimulus/sign that signals a biologically relevant event.
ex:dogs required to sit on a mat and a stimulus that signals food is presented to the animal. when the food signal is presented, the dogs approach the stimulus and make food-soliciting responses to it. |
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a respondent conditioning procedure that generates skeletal responses.
ex: key light is turned on a few seconds before grain is presented to a pigeon. after several pairings of key light and grain, the bird begins to peck the key. |
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when a conditioned stimulus (e.g. light) is paired with an unconditioned stimulus (e.g. food), the conditioned stimulus is said to substitute for the unconditioned stimulus.
that is, food elicits salivation, and by conditioning, the light elicits similar behavior. |
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| a species-specific set of responses elicited by a particular unconditioned stimulus (US). This is, for each species there is a behavior system related to procurement of food, water, or securing warmth. |
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| refers to the ontogenetic and phylogenetic histories that are present during conditioning |
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| when a distinctive taste (flavored liquid) is paired with nausea or sickness induced by a drug, xray, or physical activity, the organism shows suppression of intake of the paired flavor. |
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| some relations between stimuli and and responses are more likely because of phylogenetic history |
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aka interim behavior. organisms often show excessive behavior within the inter-reinforcement interval.
ex: rats drinking up to 3x daily water intake in 1 hr.
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| excessive drinking is adjunctive behavior induced by the time-based delivery of food. |
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| irrelevant, incongruous, or out of context behavior...does not make sense given the situation. |
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| (birds are autoshaped to peck a key) but in this type, food is not presented if the bird pecks the key. (this is also called omission b/c food reinforcement in omitted if key pecking occurs. |
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