SHAPING BY AUTOMATED TRACKING OF AN ARBITRARY OPERANT RESPONSE

SHAPING BY AUTOMATED TRACKING OF AN ARBITRARY OPERANT RESPONSE

Although shaping is a widely accepted operant‐conditioning procedure for establishing new responses, technological problems involved in specifying and recording precise approximations to the target response have hindered experimental analysis of the shaping process. The present study used a computer...

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Published in:Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior Vol. 47; no. 2; pp. 241 - 247
Main Authors: Pear, Joseph J., Legris, Joseph A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01-03-1987
Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
Subjects:
Animal
automated technology
Biological and medical sciences
Conditioning
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
key peck
Learning. Memory
operant behavior
pigeons
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
reinforcement
shaping
successive approximations
Theoretical
Vertebrata
Aves
Pigeon
Animal
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Summary:Although shaping is a widely accepted operant‐conditioning procedure for establishing new responses, technological problems involved in specifying and recording precise approximations to the target response have hindered experimental analysis of the shaping process. The present study used a computer‐controlled system that allows relatively precise procedural specification by continuous tracking of a pigeon's head and reinforcing successively closer approximations to contact of the head with an arbitrary fixed spherical region of 3‐cm diameter. The procedure was demonstrated to be effective, in that shaping of the target response occurred rapidly for each of the 3 birds in the study.
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ISSN:0022-5002
1938-3711
DOI:10.1901/jeab.1987.47-241