2000
DOI: 10.3758/bf03200259
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Facilitation of appetitive conditioning with naturalistic conditioned stimuli: CS and US factors

Abstract: Adding limited female cues to a conditioned stimulus (CS) facilitates conditioned male sexual responding, In two experiments, we examined the mechanisms of this facilitation effect, The color of the female cues on the CS was varied in Experiment L Similarity between the CS plumage color and the color of the live female (the unconditioned stimulus [US])could only partially account for the results. The extent to which the facilitation effect represents a specialization of sexual behavior was examined in Experime… Show more

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“…In general, the results from the conditioning phase of the experiment replicated previous studies with similar types of CSs (Cusato & Domjan, 1998, 2000). Adding the visual cues of a female head to the CS object dramatically facilitated the development of copulatory responses.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
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“…In general, the results from the conditioning phase of the experiment replicated previous studies with similar types of CSs (Cusato & Domjan, 1998, 2000). Adding the visual cues of a female head to the CS object dramatically facilitated the development of copulatory responses.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 83%
“…Males directed only minimal if any sexual behavior toward the headed model prior to conditioning (Cusato & Domjan, 1998). However, the magnitude of sexual responding to headed models increased considerably if the model was paired with copulatory opportunity (Cusato & Domjan, 2000; Hilliard, Domjan, Nguyen, & Cusato, 1998). More important, conditioned responding to the headed model was more vigorous than conditioned responding to otherwise identical models that did not include the species-typical female cues (Cusato & Domjan, 1998).…”
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“…In birds, the preponderance of evidence of sexual learning comes from the study of Japanese quail ( Coturnix japonica ). The sexual responses of both male (Akins & Domjan, 1996; Akins, Domjan, & Gutierrez, 1994; Balthazart, Reid, Absil, Foidart, & Ball, 1995; Crawford & Domjan, 1993; Cusato & Domjan, 2000; Domjan, Lyons, North, & Bruell, 1986; Domjan, O'Vary, & Greene, 1988; Holloway & Domjan, 1993b; Nash & Domjan, 1991) and female quail (Gutierrez & Domjan, 1997) change as a result of conditioning. These changes include alterations of the likelihood of sexual responses, changes in the situations in which sexual behaviors occur, and variations in the relative success of sexual interactions.…”
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“…The US was cloacal contact with a sexually receptive female and the CS was a terry cloth neck and trunk model of a quail attached to an acrylic platform (Çetinkaya & Domjan, 2006). A terry cloth bird model was used as CS, because the use of a more naturalistic CS has shown to decrease the number of conditioning trials required to observe acquisition of the conditioned response (CR), and thus facilitate learning acquisition in similar experimental settings (Cusato & Domjan, 2000; Domjan, Cusato, & Krause, 2004). This model hung from the box ceiling and was lowered into the housing box to be presented to the experimental subjects using a pulley system.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%