Stepping outside the box in considering the C/T ratio

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 62, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 103-114

  Domjan, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

C T ratio; Classical conditioning; Coturnix; Rate expectancy theory; Sex behavior

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; QUAIL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TIME;

COTURNIX; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0037471527     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00020-2     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Akins C.K. Effects of species-specific cues and the CS-US interval on the topography of the sexually conditioned response. Learn. Motiv. 31:2000;211-235.
2. Akins C.K., Domjan M., Gutiérrez G. Topography of sexually conditioned behavior in male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) depends on the CS-US interval. J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Processes. 20:1994;199-209.
3. Benedict J.O., Ayres J.J.B. Factors affecting conditioning in the truly random control procedure in the rat. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 78:1972;323-330.
4. Bower, G.H., Hilgard, E.R., 1981. Theories of Learning, 5th ed. Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
5. Breland K., Breland M. The misbehavior of organisms. Am. Psychol. 16:1961;681-684.
6. Burns M., Domjan M. Sign tracking in domesticated quail with one trial a day: generality across CS and US parameters. Anim. Learn. Behav. 28:2000;109-119.
7. Burns M., Domjan M. Topography of spatially directed conditioned responding: effects of context and trial duration. J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Processes. 27:2001;269-278.
8. Denniston, J.C., Savastano, H.I., Miller, R.R., 2001. The extended comparator hypothesis: learning by contiguity, responding by relative strength. In: Mowrer, R.R., Klein, S.B. (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 65-117.
9. Domjan, M., 1983. Biological constraints on instrumental and classical conditioning: implications for general process theory. In: Bower, G.H. (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 17. Academic Press, New York, pp. 215-277.
10. Domjan M. General process learning theory: challenges from response and stimulus factors. Int. J. Comp. Psychol. 13:2000;101-118.
11. Domjan M., Lyons R., North N.C., Bruell J. Sexual Pavlovian conditioned approach behavior in male Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica). J. Comp. Psychol. 100:1986;413-421.
12. Gallistel C.R., Gibbon J. Time, rate, and conditioning. Psychol. Rev. 107:2000;289-344.
13. Gibbon, J., Balsam, P., 1981. Spreading associations in time. In: Locurto, C.M., Terrace, H.S., Gibbon, J. (Eds.), Autoshaping and Conditioning Theory. Academic Press, New York, pp. 219-253.
14. Gormezano, I., Kehoe, E.J., 1975. Classical conditioning: some methodological-conceptual issues. In: Estes, W.K. (Ed.), Handbook of Learning and Cognitive Processes, vol. 2. Conditioning and Behavior Theory. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ, pp. 143-179.
15. Holland P.C. Trial and intertrial durations in appetitive conditioning in rats. Anim. Learn. Behav. 28:2000;121-135.
16. Holloway K.S., Domjan M. Sexual approach conditioning: unconditioned stimulus factors. J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Processes. 19:1993;38-46.
17. Lattal K.M. Trial and intertrial durations in Pavlovian conditioning: issues of learning and performance. J. Exp. Psychol. Anim. Behav. Processes. 25:1999;433-450.
18. Miller, R.R., Matzel, L.D., 1988. The comparator hypothesis: a response rule for the expression of associations. In: Bower, G.H. (Ed.), The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, vol. 22. Academic Press, San Diego, CA, pp. 51-92.
19. Ost, J.W.P., Lauer, D.W., 1965. Some investigations of salivary conditioning in the dog. In: Prokasy, W.F. (Ed.), Classical Conditioning. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York.
20. Papini M.R., Bitterman M.E. The role of contingency in classical conditioning. Psychol. Rev. 97:1990;396-403.
21. Rescorla R.A. Pavlovian conditioning and its proper control procedures. Psychol. Rev. 74:1967;71-80.
22. Schneiderman N., Gormezano I. Conditioning of the nictitating membrane of the rabbit as a function of CS-US interval. J. Comp. Physiol. Psychol. 57:1964;188-195.
23. Silva F.J., Timberlake W. A behavior system view of conditioned states during long and short CS-US intervals. Learn. Motiv. 28:1997;465-490.
24. Skinner, B.F., 1938. The behavior of organisms. Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York.
25. Timberlake, W., 2001. Motivational modes in behavior systems. In: Mowrer, R.R., Klein, S.B. (Eds.), Handbook of Contemporary Learning Theories. Erlbaum, Mahwah, NJ, pp. 155-209.
26. Tinbergen, N., 1951. The Study of Instinct. Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press, Oxford.