The relation of strength of stimulus to rate of learning in the chick.
Open Access
- 1 January 1911
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Animal Behavior
- Vol. 1 (2) , 111-124
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0074224
Abstract
Investigated the ability of chicks to make an easy, medium, and a difficult discrimination, under varying strengths of stimulus. A series of experiments, involving 68 barred Plymouth Rock chicks, was carried out. The chicks were given a preliminary training to familiarize them with the apparatus. The apparatus comprised 3 divisions or boxes: the hover box, the illumination box, and the experiment box. It was found that under the condition of easy and medium discrimination, the rate of learning was more rapid the stronger the stimulus. Under the conditions of difficult discrimination, the chicks which were most sensitive to the electric stimulus, and learned most rapidly under the influence of weak stimuli. The results have been compared with those of R. M. Yerkes and J. D. Dodson (1908), who worked with mice. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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