Abstract
Eight pigeons learned a conditional delayed discrimination in which the initial schedule was a fixed ratio and the terminal segment was either FI 5 sec or FI 25 sec. The initial to terminal stimulus sequence was color to form for 4 birds and form to color for the other 4. The subjects were shifted to the other stimulus sequence after learning to discriminate. Color-form sequences were discriminated more accurately during both pre- and postshift sessions. However, there were no differences in rates between color-form and form-color groups during FI 5-sec components. Large differences occurred during FI 25-sec components.
Article PDF
Similar content being viewed by others
Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript.
References
Gray, L. (1966). Backward association in pigeons. Psychonomic Science, 4, 333–334.
Hogan, D. E., & Zentall, T. R. (1977). Backward associations in the pigeon. American Journal of Psychology, 90, 3–15.
Rodewald, H. K. (1974). Symbolic matching to sample by pigeons. Psychological Reports, 34, 987–990.
Urcuioli, P. J., & Zentall, T. R. (1986). Retrospective coding in pigeons’ delayed matching-to-sample. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 12, 69–77.
Wasserman, E. A. (1986). Prospection and retrospection as processes of animal short-term memory. In D. F. Kendrick, M. E. Rilling, & M. R. Denny (Eds.), Theories of animal memory (pp. 53–75). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Wasserman, E. A., Bhatt, R. S., Chatlosh, D. L., & Kiedinger, R. E. (1987). Discrimination of and memory for dimension and value information by pigeons. Learning & Motivation, 13, 417–433.
Zentall, T. R., Sherburne, L. M., & Steirn, J. N. (1992). Development of excitatory backward associations during the establishment of forward associations in a delayed conditional discrimination by pigeons. Animal Learning & Behavior, 20, 199–206.
Zentall, T. R., Urcuioli, P. J., Jagielo, J. A., & Jackson-Smith, P. (1989). Interaction of sample dimension and sample-comparison mapping on pigeons’ performance of delayed conditional discriminations. Animal Learning & Behavior, 17, 172–178.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
Meltzer, D., Doherty, J.J. & Jian, C. Color and form in successive conditional delayed discrimination shifts. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 31, 241–244 (1993). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334918
Received:
Published:
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334918