Effect of signaling reinforcement on resistance to change in a multiple schedule

• Published in: Behavioural processes Vol. 74; no. 1; pp. 33 - 48
• Main Authors: Bell, Matthew C., Seip, Katharine M., Fitzsimmons, Kathleen S.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Shannon Elsevier B.V 10.01.2007; Elsevier
• Subjects: Animal ethology; Animals; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Behavioral momentum theory; Biological and medical sciences; Choice Behavior; Columbidae; Extinction, Psychological; Feeding Behavior; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Key peck; Multiple schedules; Pigeons; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Reinforcement (Psychology); Reinforcement Schedule; Resistance to change; Key peck; Resistance to change; Multiple schedules; Behavioral momentum theory; Pigeons; Theory; Columba livia; Change resistance; Pigeon; Vertebrata; Animal; Reinforcement; Behavior; Aves

This study evaluated the effect of a signal on resistance to change using a multiple schedule of reinforcement. Experiment 1 presented pigeons with three schedules: a signaled delay to reinforcement schedule (a two-link chain schedule with a variable-interval 120-s initial link followed by a 5-s fix...