Retardation of Autoshaping: Control by Contextual Stimuli
- 18 June 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4245) , 1244-1246
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.192.4245.1244
Abstract
Training pigeons with random presentations of a tone and food proactively interferes with the acquisition of autoshaped keypecking to a lighted key. The interference effect is context-specific (observed only when testing for autoshaping occurs in the initial training environment). An interpretation based on blocking by background cues is suggested by the data.Keywords
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