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Weaver, Matthew T.; Branch, Marc N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Tolerance to effects of cocaine can be modulated by schedules of reinforcement. With multiple ratio schedules, research has shown an inverse relationship between ratio requirement and amount of tolerance that resulted from daily administration of the drug. In contrast, tolerance to the effects of cocaine on behavior under multiple interval…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Cocaine, Intervals, Animals
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Urcuioli, Peter J. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Five experiments assessed associative symmetry in pigeons. In Experiments 1A, 1B and 2, pigeons learned two-alternative symbolic matching with identical sample- and comparison-response requirements and with matching stimuli appearing in all possible locations. Despite controlling for the nature of the functional stimuli and insuring all requisite…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Behavioral Science Research, Training
Mace, F. Charles; McComas, Jennifer J.; Mauro, Benjamin C.; Progar, Patrick R.; Taylor, Bridget; Ervin, Ruth; Zangrillo, Amanda N. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2010
Basic research with pigeons on behavioral momentum suggests that differential reinforcement of alternative behavior (DRA) can increase the resistance of target behavior to change. This finding suggests that clinical applications of DRA may inadvertently increase the persistence of target behavior even as it decreases its frequency. We conducted…
Descriptors: Animals, Behavior Problems, Persistence, Reinforcement
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Rule, Audrey C.; Baldwin, Samantha; Schell, Robert – Journal of Creative Behavior, 2009
This repeated measures study examined second graders' (n = 21) performance in creating inventions related to animal adaptations for simple products under two conditions that alternated each week for a six-week period. In the analogy condition, students used form and function analogy object boxes to learn about animal adaptations, applying these…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Effect Size, Grade 2
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Viosca, Jose; Malleret, Gael; Bourtchouladze, Rusiko; Benito, Eva; Vronskava, Svetlana; Kandel, Eric R.; Barco, Angel – Learning & Memory, 2009
The activation of cAMP-responsive element-binding protein (CREB)-dependent gene expression is thought to be critical for the formation of different types of long-term memory. To explore the consequences of chronic enhancement of CREB function on spatial memory in mammals, we examined spatial navigation in bitransgenic mice that express in a…
Descriptors: Animals, Long Term Memory, Spatial Ability, Brain
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Pinkston, Jonathan W.; Ratzlaff, Kenneth L.; Madden, Gregory J.; Fowler, Stephen C. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
The reproducibility of experimental outcomes depends on consistent control of independent variables. In food-maintained operant performance, it is of utmost importance that the quantity of food delivered is reliable. To that end, some commercial food pellet dispensers have add-on attachments to sense the delivery of pellets. Not all companies,…
Descriptors: Integrity, Unit Costs, Behavioral Science Research, Food
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Kessel, Robert; Lucke, Robert L. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
Shull, Gaynor and Grimes advanced a model for interresponse time distribution using probabilistic cycling between a higher-rate and a lower-rate response process. Both response processes are assumed to be random in time with a constant rate. The cycling between the two processes is assumed to have a constant transition probability that is…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Probability, Monte Carlo Methods, Simulation
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Iversen, Iver H. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
An inexpensive and automated method for presentation of olfactory or tactile stimuli in a two-choice task for rats was implemented with the use of a computer-controlled bidirectional motor. The motor rotated a disk that presented two stimuli of different texture for tactile discrimination, or different odor for olfactory discrimination. Because…
Descriptors: Olfactory Perception, Research Methodology, Training, Cues
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Koffarnus, Mikhail N.; Woods, James H. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2008
The generalized matching law provides precise descriptions of choice, but has not been used to characterize choice between different doses of drugs or different classes of drugs. The current study examined rhesus monkeys' drug self-administration choices between identical drug doses, different doses, different drugs (cocaine, remifentanil, and…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Cocaine, Animal Behavior, Primatology
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Tomasek, Terry; Matthews, Catherine E. – Science Activities: Classroom Projects and Curriculum Ideas, 2008
Reptiles and amphibians are a diverse and interesting group of organisms. The four activities described in this article take students' curiosity into the realm of scientific understanding. The activities involve the concepts of species identification; animal adaptations, communication, and habitat; and conservation. (Contains 1 table and 2…
Descriptors: Science Activities, Animal Behavior, Science Instruction, Scientific Concepts
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Bacha-Mendez, Gustavo; Reid, Alliston K.; Mendoza-Soylovna, Adela – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
Two experiments with rats examined the dynamics of well-learned response sequences when reinforcement contingencies were changed. Both experiments contained four phases, each of which reinforced a 2-response sequence of lever presses until responding was stable. The contingencies then were shifted to a new reinforced sequence until responding was…
Descriptors: Reinforcement, Animals, Responses, Contingency Management
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Gallistel, C. R.; King, Adam Philip; Gottlieb, Daniel; Balci, Fuat; Papachristos, Efstathios B.; Szalecki, Matthew; Carbone, Kimberly S. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2007
Experimentally naive mice matched the proportions of their temporal investments (visit durations) in two feeding hoppers to the proportions of the food income (pellets per unit session time) derived from them in three experiments that varied the coupling between the behavioral investment and food income, from no coupling to strict coupling.…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Time, Investment
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Platz, James E. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2009
Field experiments offer the opportunity for hands on experience with the scientific process. While this is true of a wide variety of activities, many have pitfalls both experimental and logistical that reduce the overall rate of success, in turn, influencing student learning outcomes. Relying on small, territorial, diurnal lizards and an array of…
Descriptors: Radiation, Heat, Teaching Methods, Animals
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Betteley, Pat – Science and Children, 2009
How do you inspire students to keep records like scientists? Share the primary research of real scientists and explicitly teach students how to keep records--that's how! Therefore, a group of third-grade students and their teacher studied the work of famous primatologist Jane Goodall and her modern-day counterpart Ian Gilby. After learning about…
Descriptors: Animal Behavior, Parks, Foreign Countries, Scientists
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Darling, Randi A. – Bioscene: Journal of College Biology Teaching, 2008
This field experiment is designed to test for despotic behavior in Mallards ("Anas platyrhynchos"), and to examine how ducks distribute themselves relative to their resources. Students present Mallards with food patches differing in profitability in order to examine whether ducks distribute themselves ideal freely or ideal despotically. Students…
Descriptors: Animals, Animal Behavior, Food, Science Instruction
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