Ontogeny has a phylogeny: background to adjunctive behaviors in pigeons and budgerigars.

Abstract:

:Animals coping with operant conditioning tasks often show behaviors that are not recorded by keys, levers and similar response transducers. Nevertheless, these adjunctive behaviors should not be disposed of by classifying them as incidental. Often they are found to be at least partially influenced by the experimentally programmed contingencies, and under certain conditions they can in turn influence conditioned behaviors. Here we describe the occurrence and characteristics of two such behaviors, stimulus grasping in operantly key-pecking pigeons and intra-delay stereotypies in a delayed matching-to-sample task with budgerigars. It is argued that for a proper account of these behaviors it is necessary to refer to a behavioral systems approach that appeals to longer ranging ontogenetic and phylogenetic histories than is usually considered in the psychological literature. The gaping towards on-key stimuli by pigeons is attributed to the hypothesis that operantly conditioned key-pecks probably relate to a grasp-pecking response that is normally executed towards non-edible items covering food. The intra-delay behaviors shown by the budgerigars are assumed to have originated from stress-induced displacement responses that adventitiously came under the influence of differential reinforcement contingencies. Finally, we discuss what kinds of evidence are needed to put these hypothetical explanations on a more certain footing.

journal_name

Behav Processes

journal_title

Behavioural processes

authors

Cleaveland JM,Jäger R,Rössner P,Delius JD

doi

10.1016/s0376-6357(02)00187-0

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-03-31 00:00:00

pages

143-158

issue

3

eissn

0376-6357

issn

1872-8308

pii

S0376635702001870

journal_volume

61

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