SOME DETERMINERS OF ATTENTION1
- 1 March 1968
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 11 (2) , 157-166
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1968.11-157
Abstract
Three experiments, using a total of 13 pigeons, examined the stimulus control acquired by the separate components of a compound visual stimulus transilluminating the pecking key. Experiment I measured the control acquired by components of compound discriminative stimuli used in discrimination training. Experiment II sought to demonstrate the effect of pretraining a single stimulus discrimination on control acquired by each component in a compound stimulus discrimination. It also investigated the effect of training the compound stimulus discrimination before the single stimulus discrimination. Experiment III sought a continuous stimulus control function when pretraining stimulus intensities were varied. The results suggest that the extent to which a bird “pays attention” to a stimulus, defined in terms of the degree of stimulus control acquired by that stimulus, is determined by how well it previously learned to discriminate that stimulus from other stimuli.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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