Journal article
WITHIN‐SESSION ANALYSIS OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATION
Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.72(3), pp.385-405
11/1999
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/110342
PMCID: PMC1284750
PMID: 16812918
Abstract
Within‐session changes in responding by pigeons during a maintained successive discrimination procedure were examined in four experiments. In the first two experiments, which involved discrimination of visual flicker rate, within‐session changes in responding were minimal or absent. A third experiment, which examined discrimination of rectangular forms, demonstrated that the absence of within‐session changes in responding was not limited to flicker‐rate stimuli. A fourth experiment showed that the absence of within‐session changes in responding was not due to high task difficulty in the previous experiments. For the group of subjects in each experiment, within‐session changes in responding did not influence discrimination performance. Therefore, measures of overall response rate accurately represented responding both within and across sessions. The occasional appearance of within‐session decreases in responding for a few birds may be attributable to satiation.
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- Title
- WITHIN‐SESSION ANALYSIS OF VISUAL DISCRIMINATION
- Creators
- John M HinsonLinda R Tennison
- Publication Details
- Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior, Vol.72(3), pp.385-405
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Oxford, UK
- Number of pages
- 21
- Identifiers
- 99900547282501842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article