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J Exp Anal Behav. 1968 January; 11(1): 1–8.
doi: 10.1901/jeab.1968.11-1.
PMCID: PMC1338436
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Auto-shaping of the pigeon's key-peck1
Paul L. Brown and Herbert M. Jenkins
1Supported by Grants MH 08442-03 from the National Institute of Mental Health and APT-103 from the National Research Council of Canada held by the second author. The first author holds a United States Public Health Service Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Institute of Mental Health. Parts of this research were presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological Association, April 1967. Reprints may be obtained from either author, Psychology Department, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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Abstract
Reliable acquisition of the pigeon's key-peck response resulted from repeated unconditional (response-independent) presentations of food after the response key was illuminated momentarily. Comparison groups showed that acquisition was dependent upon light—food pairings, in that order.
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Selected References
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  • BOWER G, GRUSEC T. EFFECT OF PRIOR PAVLOVIAN DISCRIMINATION TRAINING UPON LEARNING AN OPERANT DISCRIMINATION. J Exp Anal Behav. 1964 Nov;7:401–404. [PubMed]
  • BOWER G, KAUFMAN R. Transfer across drives of the discriminative effect of a Pavlovian conditioned stimulus. J Exp Anal Behav. 1963 Jul;6:445–448. [PubMed]
  • MORSE WH, SKINNER BF. A second type of superstition in the pigeon. Am J Psychol. 1957 Jun;70(2):308–311. [PubMed]
  • MORSE WH, SKINNER BF. Some factors involved in the stimulus control of operant behavior. J Exp Anal Behav. 1958 Jan;1:103–107. [PubMed]
  • Rescorla RA. Pavlovian conditioning and its proper control procedures. Psychol Rev. 1967 Jan;74(1):71–80. [PubMed]
  • Trapold MA, Fairlie J. Transfer of discrimination learning based upon contingent and noncontingent training procedures. Psychol Rep. 1965 Aug;17(1):239–246. [PubMed]
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