HIGH‐ORDER CONCEPT FORMATION IN THE PIGEON1
- 1 May 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 21 (3) , 475-483
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1974.21-475
Abstract
After 30 days of operant training, with pecking responses to aerial photographs containing man‐made objects reinforced with food, and no food reinforcement for pecking on photographs not containing man‐made objects, a discrimination to the two classes of photographs was obtained. The discriminative response generalized to photographs with which the pigeons had no previous experience. This study demonstrates that pigeons are capable of forming relatively high‐order concepts. Some possible stimulus properties controlling the discrimination are discussed.Keywords
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