Two procedures for the establishment of "imitative behavior."
- 31 December 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology
- Vol. 50 (3) , 315-318
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0043032
Abstract
Two groups of rats, equated for speed of learning a primary-discrimination cue and amount of learning of an incidental cue in an elevated T-maze, were then trained to follow a leader rat by a trial-and-error procedure or by an incidental cue procedure. "After the trial-and-error group reached a 65 per cent criterion of following on one day, both groups were tested for the amount of following behavior without the presence of other discriminative stimuli. On these test trials both groups showed a significant tendency to follow the leader." There were no differences between groups on test trial performance but the incidental-cue group made fewer errors during the acquisition training.Keywords
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