Context and Animal Behavior II: The Role of Conspecifics in Species-Typical Perceptual Development

Lickliter, Robert

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“…In a general sense, the results of this study demonstrate that experiences provided by conspecifics can facilitate the perceptual and social adaptations required by young chicks during early development. Of course, nearly all developing organisms are embedded in and ongoingly interact with a social environment (Lickliter, 1991; Lickliter, Dyer, & McBride, in press). For most species, the social environment contains conspecifics, especially parents and siblings.…”

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Social experience with siblings fosters species specific responsiveness to maternal visual cues in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus).

McBride¹,

Lickliter²

1993

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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We examined the role of visual and social experience with siblings in the development of bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) chicks' preference for species-specific maternal visual cues. Chicks were reared in 1 of 4 conditions: group, isolation, partial isolation, and heterospecific group. They were tested in simultaneous choice tests with species-typical and species-atypical audiovisual stimuli. Results revealed that only subjects that were reared in a group with same-aged conspecifics preferred the visual features of a bobwhite hen model. Subjects in the other 3 conditions did not exhibit species-specific visual preference. The findings suggest that visual experience and direct social interaction with siblings facilitate the development of bobwhite chicks' species-specific responsiveness to static maternal visual cues and illustrate the important influence of experience with conspecifics in the development of early perceptual preferences.

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Social experience with siblings fosters species specific responsiveness to maternal visual cues in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus).

McBride¹,

Lickliter²

1993

Journal of Comparative Psychology

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“…In short, from this perspective, both cognition and behavioral development are ''situated.'' If this is true, then neither cognition nor behavior can be described as being an abstract process because both are always grounded or nested in the context in which the animal finds itself (see Coss, 1991;Lickliter, 1991;Owings & Coss, 1991;Rogoff, 1990).…”

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Nested reciprocities: The organism–environment system in perception–action and development

Wagman

Miller

2003

Developmental Psychobiology

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The ecological approach to studying perception and action is one in which researchers view the structure in ambient energy arrays surrounding a given organism as being sufficient to specify meaningful environmental properties to that organism. Thus, from this perspective, perception is viewed not as a cognitive achievement but as a lawful state of affairs that exists in an organism-environment system. The approach to studying development known as transactionalism is one in which researchers view the developmental process as the expression of a complex web of endogenous and exogenous factors. Thus, from this perspective, development is not an unfolding of a genetic program, but rather an ongoing exchange among levels of the organism-environment system that continues throughout the life span of the organism. Despite their independent development, these two meta-theoretical approaches have much in common. In each approach, the organism-environment system is the fundamental unit of analysis, and the development of perception and behavior is spread across the multiple levels of this system.

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“…An arena of comparative research that brings together the various insights about behavior reviewed in this article (probabilism, equifinality, nonlinearity, and distributed control) is the role of social experience in the development of perceptual, social, and cognitive processes in a variety of animal species (e.g., Blaich & Miller, 1986;Hofer, 1987;Khayutin, 1985;Lickliter, 1991;Mason, 1978;Miller, 1994; INSIGHTS FROM COMPARATIVE PSYCHOLOGY Porter, Cernoch, & Matachik, 1983;Wang & Novak, 1992). Most developing avian and mammalian infants are typically embedded within a rich social network of conspecifics.…”

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An Ecological Approach to Behavioral Development: Insights From Comparative Psychology

Lickliter¹

2000

Ecological Psychology

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In this article, I review recent work from comparative psychology, highlighting several conceptual and methodological insights drawn from comparative research and exploring their value to an ecological approach to behavioral development. In particular, I consider examples of a major focus of comparative psychology, the search for developmental mechanisms and processes underlying the expression of species-typical behavior. This focus has provided several insights regarding behavioral development that have supported an ecological approach and provided a richness and depth of perspective on behavior complementary to that found in ecological psychology. Specifically, I review the related notions of probabilism, equifinality, nonlinearity, and distributed control and discuss their applicability to and support of ecological theory.Although the importance of context or milieu has been acknowledged in the behavioral sciences for many years (e.g, Brunswik, 1952;Kuo, 1967;Lewin, 1931;Schneirla, 1957;Werner, 1957), a concerted effort to include contextual factors in analytic studies of behavioral development is a relatively recent direction in psychological sciences (see Michel & Moore, 1995). This effort is part and parcel of the growing influence of an ecological approach to behavioral organization. As recently reviewed by Reed (1996), an ecological approach to behavior is a powerful addition to traditional psychological inquiry, in that it expands the scope of investigation and directs research attention beyond the boundary of the organism. In particular, an ecological approach views the relation between the organism and its environment, rather than the nature of the organism itself, as the appropriate object of study of psychology (J. or milieu is a major shift in research emphasis, as the science of psychology has tended to reduce the habitats or contexts of animals to "stimuli," making little attempt to examine the complex places and events within which normal behavioral development takes place (Reed, 1996). In contrast, an ecological approach views behavioral development as situated and stresses the fundamental connectedness of the organism to its surroundings. From this view, an organism's functional environment is structured, organized, and specific to the organism, and the task of defining the relevant features of an organism's context becomes an empirical problem that requires systematic description and analysis (Johnston, 1981(Johnston, , 1985.Approaching behavioral development as a process that is situated highlights the need to specify in detail the variety of physical, biological, and social factors that the organism encounters as it develops over time. Of course, as an organism develops, its relation to the external world also changes, so that its effective environment changes as well (Johnston, 1985). One of the strengths of an ecological approach to behavioral development is its explicit attempt to elaborate an appropriately dynamic view of the changing relationship between the developing organism and its ...

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Context and Animal Behavior II: The Role of Conspecifics in Species-Typical Perceptual Development

Cited by 9 publications

References 29 publications

Social experience with siblings fosters species specific responsiveness to maternal visual cues in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus).

Social experience with siblings fosters species specific responsiveness to maternal visual cues in bobwhite quail chicks (Colinus virginianus).

Nested reciprocities: The organism–environment system in perception–action and development

An Ecological Approach to Behavioral Development: Insights From Comparative Psychology

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