A preliminary investigation to establish conceptual behavior in gray wolves (Canis lupus)

IF 1.4 3区 心理学 Q4 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Andrew J. Bulla, Madisen Duke, Oscar Turcios, Khaz Brooks, Ryan Talbot, Christopher Lile, Karen Davis
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Abstract

Conceptual behavior represents a type of complex stimulus control where an organism differentially responds to examples and nonexamples of instances within a stimulus class. Different species have demonstrated conceptual behavior both in their natural environments and through experimental investigations. The current paper investigates preliminary methods to teach conceptual behavior to gray wolves (Canis lupus). The researchers used a match-to-sample arrangement to teach three shapes: a triangle, square, and cross varying in size, color, and positions. Probe trials used a novel set of stimuli to test for the emergence of conceptual behavior. Although the wolves did not show an immediate transfer to novel stimuli following initial match-to-sample training, they did show improvement after explicit discrimination training. We discuss the implications of these results as well as future methods that may enhance experimental procedures investigating concept learning in canids.

灰狼概念性行为的初步研究
概念行为代表了一种复杂的刺激控制,其中生物体对刺激类别中的实例和非实例有不同的反应。不同的物种在其自然环境和实验研究中都表现出了概念行为。目前的论文研究了教授灰狼概念行为的初步方法。研究人员使用配对样本排列来教授三种形状:三角形、正方形和十字架,它们的大小、颜色和位置各不相同。探针试验使用了一组新颖的刺激来测试概念行为的出现。尽管在最初的样本匹配训练后,狼并没有表现出对新刺激的立即转移,但在明确的辨别训练后,它们确实表现出了改善。我们讨论了这些结果的含义,以及未来可能加强研究犬科动物概念学习的实验程序的方法。
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自引率
14.80%
发文量
83
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior is primarily for the original publication of experiments relevant to the behavior of individual organisms.
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