Object-discrimination learning set and hypothesis behavior in the northern bluejay (Cynaocitta cristata)

Hunter, Martin; Kamil, Alan C.

doi:10.3758/bf03335950

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“…First of all, these results replicate a number of previous findings involving ODLS in bluejays. ODLS formation was again obtained, although at a faster rate in terms of number of problems, than that reported by Hunter and Kamil (1971). This difference in rate is probably due to the criterion procedure used to terminate individual problems in the current experiment.…”

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Intraproblem retention during learning-set acquisition in bluejays (Cyanocitta cristata)

Kamil

Mauldin

1975

Animal Learning & Behavior

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Three experiments were conducted exarmmng short-term retention within individual object-discrimination learning-set (ODLS) problems. In Experiment I, it was found that intraproblem retention decreased during ODLS acquisition. Experiment II demonstrated that this phenomenon was not due to simple recency of experience with other ODLS problems. Experiment III demonstrated that retention was not influenced by the number of trials per problem or number of problems per session. These results were interpreted as supporting a conditional discrimination model of ODLS acquisition in bluejays.

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“…This difference in rate is probably due to the criterion procedure used to terminate individual problems in the current experiment. Hunter and Kamil (1971) employed a fixed number of trials procedure. The retention performance of the bluejays in this experiment, during Blocks 2 and 3, is very similar to that reported by Kamil et a1.…”

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Intraproblem retention during learning-set acquisition in bluejays (Cyanocitta cristata)

Kamil

Mauldin

1975

Animal Learning & Behavior

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“…In other words, although the crows were able to solve individual object discrimination problems, they showed minimal ODLS acquisition. These performance levels are considerably lower than those previously obtained with either bluejays (Hunter & Kamil, 1971) or myna birds (Kamil & Hunter, 1970).…”

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Marginal learning-set formation by the crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos)

Hunter

Kamil²

1975

Bull. Psychon. Soc.

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“…A large literature describes differences between the skills used by human experts and novices (e.g., mathematics and physics -Chi, Feltovitch, & Glaser, 1981;chess-Simon & Chase, 1973; serial memory- Chase & Ericsson, 1981;and medicine-Lesgold et al, 1988). By contrast, the literature on animal expertise is limited to a small number of experiments showing how monkeys (Harlow, 1949), rats (Eichenbaum, Fagan, & Cohen, 1986), and korvids (Hunter & Kamil, 1971) "learn to learn" a simple rule for discriminating two novel objects.…”

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