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Tsui, David; van der Kooy, Derek – Learning & Memory, 2008
We utilized olfactory-mediated chemotaxis in "Caenorhabditis elegans" to examine the effect of aging on information processing and animal behavior. Wild-type (N2) young adults (day 4) initially approach and eventually avoid a point source of benzaldehyde. Aged adult animals (day 7) showed a stronger initial approach and a delayed avoidance to…
Descriptors: Animals, Associative Learning, Animal Behavior, Age Differences
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Metz, Kathleen E. – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
This study examines first graders' epistemic reasoning, in tacit "practical epistemologies" reflected in thinking about an investigation of their own design. I analyzed children's epistemic reasoning, following a design experiment scaffolding increasing regulation of scientific inquiry in a domain they studied in depth. Participants…
Descriptors: Investigations, Familiarity, Interviews, Grade 1
Vasconcelos, Marco; Urcuioli, Peter J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
Zentall and Singer (2007a) hypothesized that our failure to replicate the work-ethic effect in pigeons (Vasconcelos, Urcuioli, & Lionello-DeNolf, 2007) was due to insufficient overtraining following acquisition of the high- and low-effort discriminations. We tested this hypothesis using the original work-ethic procedure (Experiment 1) and one…
Descriptors: Ethics, Enrollment, Evaluation Methods, Animals
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Thomas, Nathaniel R. – Teaching of Psychology, 2009
This article describes the design and implementation of a 1-credit-hour seminar in comparative psychology as a supplement to an introductory biopsychology course. The purpose of the course was to introduce students to the ecological and evolutionary aspects of animal behavior by building on topics that are introduced in many biopsychology courses.…
Descriptors: Seminars, Animal Behavior, Biology, Psychology
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Wong, Lung-Hsiang; Looi, Chee-Kit – Interactive Learning Environments, 2012
The notion of a system adapting itself to provide support for learning has always been an important issue of research for technology-enabled learning. One approach to provide adaptivity is to use social navigation approaches and techniques which involve analysing data of what was previously selected by a cluster of users or what worked for…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Entomology, Educational Technology, Individualized Instruction
Lord, Thomas R.; Travis, Holly J. – National Science Teachers Association (NJ3), 2011
With 101 easy and inexpensive activities to do on school grounds, "Schoolyard Science" can help students develop their observation and inquiry skills as well as an appreciation of their outdoor environment. Covering topics such as lower plants, gardens, insects and other invertebrates, energy, and Earth science, Thomas Lord and Holly Travis…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Earth Science, Entomology, Critical Thinking
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Allen, Ron; Kupfer, Jeff; Malagodi, E. F. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Pigeons' keypecking was maintained under two- and three-component chained schedules of food presentation. The component schedules were all fixed-interval schedules of either 1- or 2-min duration. Across conditions the presence of houselight illumination within each component schedule was manipulated. For each pigeon, first-component response rates…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Animals, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research
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Grant, Douglas S. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
To test the hypothesis that pigeons will only code the more salient sample when samples differ markedly in salience, pigeons were trained with samples consisting of a 2-s presentation of food (highly salient sample) and an 8-s presentation of keylight (less salient sample). During retention testing, pigeons tended to respond at longer delays as if…
Descriptors: Conditioning, Animals, Animal Behavior, Experiments
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Williams, Douglas A.; Chubala, Chrissy M.; Mather, Amber A.; Johns, Kenneth W. – Learning and Motivation, 2009
Appetitive contextual excitation supported by intertrial unconditioned stimuli was more easily overcome by timed conditioned responding in rats using quiet (Experiment 1) rather than noisy (Experiment 2) food pellet deliveries. Head-entry responding in acquisition peaked above the contextual baseline when pellet delivery occurred 10, 30, 60, or 90…
Descriptors: Cues, Intervals, Reaction Time, Food
Pizzo, Matthew J.; Kirkpatrick, Kimberly; Blundell, Pamela J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2009
The differential reinforcement of low rate (DRL) schedule is commonly used to assess impulsivity, hyperactivity, and the cognitive effects of pharmacological treatments on performance. A DRL schedule requires subjects to wait a certain minimum amount of time between successive responses to receive reinforcement. The DRL criterion value, which…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Hyperactivity, Learning, Reinforcement
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Yankelevitz, Rachelle L.; Bullock, Christopher E.; Hackenberg, Timothy D. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Four pigeons were exposed to a token-reinforcement procedure with stimulus lights serving as tokens. Responses on one key (the token-production key) produced tokens that could be exchanged for food during an exchange period. Exchange periods could be produced by satisfying a ratio requirement on a second key (the exchange-production key). The…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Token Economy, Animals, Animal Behavior
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Bowen, G. Michael; Arsenault, Nicole – Science Teacher, 2008
Because of the variability exhibited by individual animals' responses to their environment, studying animal behavior can be a wonderful way to engage students in self-directed, open-inquiry investigations. Individual animals react in ways that are a combination of instinct and learned behavior, but collectively they exhibit broader tendencies that…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Science Instruction, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Adolph, Karen E.; Robinson, Scott R – Child Development, 2008
Nativist and constructivist approaches to the study of development share a common emphasis on characterizing beginning and end states in development. This focus has highlighted the question of preservation and transformation--whether core aspects of the adult end state are present in the earliest manifestations during infancy. In contrast, a…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Systems Approach, Animal Behavior, Motor Development
Pedersen, Helena – Canadian Journal of Environmental Education, 2011
This article seeks to contribute to the idea of "posthumanist education" by unfolding an educational situation where an assemblage of two humans and 33 former battery hens is gathered to carry out a so-called cognitive bias experiment for two days. A Deleuzian repertoire is set in motion to configure the dynamics of hens intervening in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Education, Educational Principles, Critical Theory
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Madden, Gregory J.; Smethells, John R.; Ewan, Eric E.; Hursh, Steven R. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
This experiment was conducted to test predictions of two behavioral-economic approaches to quantifying relative reinforcer efficacy. According to the first of these approaches, characteristics of averaged normalized demand curves may be used to predict progressive-ratio breakpoints and peak responding. The second approach, the demand analysis,…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Economics, Animals, Animal Behavior
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