1968/03/01 by Daniel F. Johnson, William W. Cumming · 62 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Medicine · Neuroscience · Psychology · Veterinary · #Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies #Animal Nutrition and Physiology #Audiology #Behavioral and Psychological Studies #Cognitive psychology #Medicine #Neuroscience #Neutral stimulus #Psychology #Second-order stimulus #Stimulus (psychology) #Stimulus control
paper · pdf · doi:10.1901/jeab.1968.11-157
published in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 11(2), 157-166 (Wiley)
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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.