Imprinting: Transfer of the following response after initial attachment

Porter, Richard H.; Stettner, Laurence J.

doi:10.3758/bf03342470

Psychon Sci

1968

DOI: 10.3758/bf03342470

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Imprinting: Transfer of the following response after initial attachment

Richard H. Porter

Laurence J. Stettner

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“…The capacity of some aspect of the imprinting stimulus to serve as a reinforcer in both operant conditioning (Peterson, 1960;Hoffman & Kozma, 1967;Bateson & Reese, 1969) and classical conditioning (James, 1959;Porter & Stettner, 1968) bas been convincingly demonstrated. The exact functional property from which the imprinting stimulus derives reinforcing characteristics, however, remains a topic of speculation.…”

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Acquisition of behavioral control by a stationary imprinting stimulus

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Conditioned suppression of distress calls in imprinted ducklings.

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Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology

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Newly hatched ducklings were exposed to imprinting procedures and their subsequent filial reactions were studied using a classical conditioning paradigm. The first experiment revealed that a previously neutral stimulus can become a conditioned suppressor of distress calling as a consequence of pairing it with the imprinted stimulus. If the presentation of the imprinted stimulus was, however, omitted or delayed, or if it preceded rather than followed the presentation of the neutral stimulus, the effect was not obtained. The second experiment utilized a differential conditioning procedure to investigate the capacity of imprinted ducklings to come under discriminative control. Two differently colored lights were used as stimuli; one was consistently followed by presentation of the imprinted stimulus, the other was never followed by its presentation. Only the former stimulus came to suppress distress calling. The importance of the apparent interaction between classical conditioning and imprinting is noted.

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Non-Specificity of the following Response in Peking Ducklings

Porter

Stettner

1971

Percept Mot Skills

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After showing strong indications of attachment to an auditory-visual stimulus over the first 3 days of life, 8 Peking ducklings were exposed to a novel visual stimulus paired with either (1) the original imprinted sound, (2) a novel sound, or (3) no sound on Day 4. On Day 5, all Ss were tested for their responsiveness to the object to which they were exposed on Day 4 but with no associated auditory stimulus. Ss exposed to the new object plus either new or original sound on Day 4 displayed a high degree of following and approach on Day 4 and also on Day 5 when the object was silent. The highest rate of generalization was found in those Ss exposed to a sound similar to the original sound on the Day 4 trial. The group exposed to the silent novel object on both Days 4 and 5 showed little approach and following on either day. An attempt was made to explain tentatively these results as related to the arousal function of an auditory stimulus as well as stimulus generalization.

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Imprinting: Transfer of the following response after initial attachment

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Acquisition of behavioral control by a stationary imprinting stimulus

Acquisition of behavioral control by a stationary imprinting stimulus

Conditioned suppression of distress calls in imprinted ducklings.

Non-Specificity of the following Response in Peking Ducklings

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