Quantitative analysis of risk sensitivity in honeybees (Apis mellifera) with variability in concentration and amount of reward

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 196-205

  Shapiro, Martin S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZATION; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REWARD;

EID: 0034170076     PISSN: 00977403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0097-7403.26.2.196     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Banschbach, V. S., & Waddington, K. D. (1994). Risk-sensitivity in honeybees: No consensus among individuals and no effect of colony honey stores. Animal Behaviour, 47, 933-941.
2. Benson, K. E., & Stephens, D. W. (1996). Interruptions, tradeoffs, and temporal discounting. American Zoologist, 36, 506-517.
3. Bush, R. R., & Mosteller, F. (1951). A mathematical model for simple learning. Psychological Review, 58, 313-323.
4. Caraco, T. (1981). Energy budgets, risk and foraging preferences in dark-eyed juncos (Junco hyemalis). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 8, 213-217.
5. Caraco, T. (1983). White-crowned sparrows (Zonotrichia leucophrys): Foraging preferences in a risky environment. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 12, 63-69.
6. Caraco, T., Martindale, S., & Whittam, T. S. (1980). An empirical demonstration of risk sensitive foraging preferences. Animal Behaviour, 28, 820-830.
7. Couvillon, P. A., & Bitterman, M. E. (1985). Analysis of choice in honeybees. Animal Learning and Behavior, 13, 246-252.
8. Couvillon, P. A., & Bitterman, M. E. (1986). Performance of honeybees in reversal and ambiguous-cue problems: Test of a continuity model. Animal Learning and Behavior, 14, 225-231.
9. Couvillon, P. A., & Bitterman, M. E. (1991). How honeybees make choices. In J. L. Goodman & R. C. Fischer (Eds.), The behaviour and physiology of bees (pp. 116-130). Wallingford, England: CAB International.
10. Couvillon, P. A., Lee, Y., & Bitterman, M. E. (1991). Learning in honeybees as a function of amount of reward: Rejection of the equal-asymptote assumption. Animal Learning & Behavior, 19, 381-387.
11. Croy, M. L., & Hughes, R. N. (1991). Effects of food supply, hunger, danger and competition on choice of foraging location by the fifteen-spined stickle-back (Spinachia spinachia L). Animal Behaviour, 42, 131-139.
12. Fischer, M. E., Couvillon, P. A., & Bitterman, M. E. (1993). Choice in honeybees as a function of the probability of reward. Animal Learning & Behavior, 21, 187-195.
13. Grossmann, K. E. (1971). Belohnungsverzögerung beim Erlernen einer Farbe an einer künstlichen Futterstelle durch Honigbienen [Delay of reward in color learning of honeybees at an artificial feeder]. Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 29, 28-41.
14. Hamm, S. L., & Shettleworth, S. J. (1987). Risk-aversion in pigeons. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes, 13, 376-383.
15. Harder, L. D., & Real, L. A. (1987). Why are bumble bees risk averse? Ecology, 68, 1104-1108.
16. Kacelnik, A., & Bateson, M. (1996). Risk-theories - The effect of variance on foraging decisions. American Zoologist, 36, 402-434.
17. Loo, S. K., & Bitterman, M. E. (1992). Learning in honeybees (Apis mellifera) as a function of sucrose concentration. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 106, 29-36.
18. McNamara, J. M. (1996). Risk-prone behavior under rules which have evolved in a changing environment. American Zoologist, 36, 484-495.
19. McNamara, J. M., & Houston, A. I. (1992). Risk-sensitive foraging: A review of the theory. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 54, 355-378.
20. Moore, F. R., & Simm, P. A. (1986). Risk-sensitive foraging by a migratory bird (Dendroica coronata). Experientia, 42, 1054-1056.
21. Perez, S. M., & Waddington, K. D. (1996). Carpenter bee (Xylocopa micans) risk indifference and a review of nectarivore risk sensitivity studies. American Zoologist, 36, 435-446.
22. Pubols, B. H. (1962). Constant versus variable delay of reinforcement. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 55, 52-56.
23. Pyke, G. H., Pulliam, H. R., & Charnov, E. L. (1977). Optimal foraging: A selective review of theory and tests. Quarterly Review of Biology, 52, 137-154.
24. Real, L. A. (1992). Information processing and the evolutionary ecology of cognitive architecture. American Naturalist, 140, S108-145.
25. Real, L. A., & Caraco, T. (1986). Risk and foraging in stochastic environments: Theory and evidence. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 17, 371-390.
26. Reboreda, J. C., & Kacelnik, A. (1991). Risk sensitivity in starlings: Variability in food amounts and food delay. Behavioral Ecology, 2, 301-308.
27. Rescorla, R. A., & Wagner, A. R. (1972). A theory of classical conditioning: Variation in the effectiveness of reinforcement and nonreinforcement. In A. H. Black & W. F. Prokasy (Eds.), Conditioning II: Current research and theory (pp. 64-99). New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
28. Stephens, D. W. (1981). The logic of risk-sensitive foraging preferences. Animal Behaviour, 29, 628-629.
29. Stephens, D. W., & Krebs, J. R. (1986). Foraging theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
30. Waddington, K. D. (1995). Bumblebees do not respond to variance in nectar concentration. Ethology, 101, 33-38.