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Mating behavior of male and estrous female rats was observed in a large cage through three ejaculatory series. Movement, 22-kHz ultrasonic vocalizations, sexual behavior, and distance between animals were studied during the postejaculatory interval (PEI) to help establish how copulatory contact is maintained and reinitiated for successive ejaculations. Females moved more than males throughout the three series. The duration of vocalization by the male during the PEI increased in the presence of an experienced female. During the male’s vocalization, the rats exhibited a period of immobility that usually began with the experienced female’s terminating contact by moving away from the male and ended when the female reinitiated contact by moving toward the male. Virgin females did not show this pattern of movement. Experienced females maintained a greater distance from the male during the PEI than did virgin females. We conclude that the behavior of the experienced estrous female assures both considerable spatial separation during the male’s refractory period and the reinitiation of contact. 相似文献
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The role of prior social experience in maleBetta agonistic behavior was investigated in two experiments. Fish were either paired with an opponent until dominance was established naturally (Experiment 1) or given prior combat experience with a known aggressive or nonaggressive opponent (Experiment 2). The effects of prior social experience were then observed both in additional paired encounters and in some noncombat agonistic situations. The paired-encounter data indicate thatBetta attack aggressive opponents more than nonaggressive ones and rarely attack opponents once they have submitted. In contrast to attacking, these fish do not show a significant decrease in displays once their opponent has submitted, nor do they display differentially to aggressive and nonaggressive opponents. The noncombat agonistic-situation data indicate that prior social experience affects both the preference of fish for viewing other conspecifics and the waning of display behaviors. These results suggest that submissive and nonaggressive behaviors can inhibit attacks but not displays byBetta, and they emphasize the necessity of controlling for prior social experience when studying aggressive behavior. 相似文献
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In three experiments, we studied the consequences of ejaculation upon the frustrative or contrast response of male rats exposed
to reward downshift situations (i.e., surprising changes from 32% to 4% sucrose solutions). Similar to what has been found
after treatment with anxiolytic agents, consummatory suppression was partially reversed by previous ejaculations in a second
postshift trial (Experiments 2 and 3), such a result not having been obtained in a first postshift trial (Experiment 1). Moreover,
the effect of ejaculations upon males' behavior during a second postshift trial was transitory, disappearing when assessed
during the third and fourth postshift trials (Experiment 3). These results are in accordance with both Amsel's (1958, 1992)
frustration theory and Flaherty's (1996) multistage hypothesis of successive negative contrast; the diverse factors that are
known to modulate contrast effects are considered, including an interpretation of the present data in terms of the anxiolytic-like
effect of the ejaculation. 相似文献
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Second-order conditioning of social approach to a female conspecific in male Japanese quail was investigated in four experiments. Subjects that received paired first- and second-order trials acquired second-order conditioning in both Experiments 1 and 2. In contrast, subjects that received paired first-order but unpaired second-order trials, and subjects that received unpaired first-order but paired second-order trials, did not acquire second-order conditioning. In Experiment 3, subjects for whom the first-order conditioned stimulus was presented in extinction showed second-order conditioning comparable to that shown by subjects in a control group that did not receive the extinction procedure. In Experiment 4, subjects approached a second-order stimulus less when sexually satiated than when sexually deprived. These findings suggest that second-order sexual conditioning in quail is mediated by an association of the second-order stimulus with a representation of the unconditioned stimulus. 相似文献
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Three experiments were conducted with male domesticated quail to explore whether sexual responses to a three-dimensional conditioned stimulus (CS) object could be acquired through observation. Observational learning was measured by a savings test in which the observers received exposures to the CS paired with the opportunity to copulate with a female bird (the unconditioned stimulus, or US). In all of the experiments, observing a demonstrator copulate with the CS object and then receive access to the US facilitated the subsequent conditioning of the observers. This facilitation effect was not due to observation of just another male bird (Experiment 1) or observation of a male bird that copulated with the CS object (Experiment 2). Rather, the critical factor was observation of pairings of the CS object with the US. Facilitated sexual conditioning was evident in groups of birds that observed pairings of the CS and US, whether or not they witnessed a demonstrator copulating with the CS object (Experiment 3). 相似文献
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Play-solicitation and social investigatory behaviors were observed in male and female juvenile rats exposed to playful and nonplayful juvenile social stimuli. A nonplayful state was induced by treatment with scopolamine HBr. In Experiment 1, the play-solicitation behavior of males exposed to nonplayful stimuli was reliably greater than that of females; social investigation did not differ by gender. In Experiment 2, males and females were exposed to nonplayful male and female stimuli. Male subjects engaged in more soliciting than did female subjects, and male social stimuli were subjected to more soliciting than were female social stimuli. Experiment 3 compared the influence of varying social deprivation intervals on play soliciting by male juveniles. Although social investigation did not vary reliably with interval of social deprivation, play soliciting increased reliably with longer intervals of isolation. In Experiment 4, play-soliciting behavior of males exposed to nonplayful males correlated positively and reliably with play fighting behavior upon exposure to normally playful males. The results support the proposal that some specific behaviors functionally provoke interactive play fighting. 相似文献
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In three experiments, we assessed the role of signals for changes in the consequences of cues as a potential account of the
renewal effect. Experiment 1 showed recovery of responding following extinction when acquisition, extinction, and test phases
occurred in different contexts. In addition, extinction treatment in multiple contexts attenuated context-induced response
recovery. In Experiment 2, we used presentations of an extraneous stimulus (ES), instead of context shifts, and found that
responding recovered from extinction only when the ES was presented both between acquisition and extinction and between extinction
and test. In Experiment 3, we used a reversal learning design in which, during training, two cues were first paired with different
outcomes, then paired with the alternative outcomes, and finally paired again with the original outcomes. In this experiment,
presentation, just prior to testing, of an ES that had previously been presented between the different phases produced an
expectation of reversal in the meaning of the cues. 相似文献
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George T. Taylor 《Learning & behavior》1980,8(3):485-490
Two experiments were performed to examine the relationships among the sexual cycle of the female, sex pheromones, and the agonistic behavior of male rats. Data suggest that the presence of an inaccessible sexually receptive female provokes increased intermale fighting. The present research investigated the possibility that a sex pheromone from the female mediates the change in male hostilities. In Experiment 1, a combination between-subject and within-subject design was used to expose half the males to the female by several sensory modalities. The other males were exposed to the female primarily by olfaction. In Experiment 2, a completely between-subject design was used to expose some males only to the soiled bedding of the female. The results suggest that olfaction is sufficient to increase the male’s aggressiveness in the presence of an estrous female, although additional sensory input, such as the female’s movements, may be necessary to produce the full aggression-inducing effect. 相似文献
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Jibrel Harb Nadzrah Abu Bakar Pramela Krish 《Education and Information Technologies》2014,19(4):805-816
This paper reports a quantitative study on gender differences in attitudes when learning oral skills via technology. The study was conducted at Tafila Technical University, Jordan, with 70 female and 30 male students, to find out if female students are better and faster in learning a language than male. Specifically, it seeks to investigate differences in attitudes between females and males in terms of practicality, confidence and anxiety. The results of the study show that there were no significant differences between female and male students when comparing the pre- and post-test mean scores. Both genders establish the same levels of attitudes before and after undergoing this course, which suggests that the exposure to language learning using technology did not contribute to any significant gender inequality. The paired sample t-test results showed improved attitudes toward learning oral skills in both females and males. The study also indicates female and male improvement in the anxiety dimension showing that their initial strong apprehension toward this course was greatly reduced at the end of the course. In terms of confidence, female showed better enhanced confidence level than male at the end of the course. 相似文献
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A series of experiments was performed to determine whether sign-tracking would occur in rats with intravenous (i.v.) cocaine
as the unconditioned stimulus. In Experiment 1, a retractable lever paired with food produced strong sign-tracking, but a
lever paired with one of three doses of i.v. cocaine did not elicit any approach or contact behavior. Experiment 2 demonstrated
that doses of cocaine that did not elicit sign-tracking would function as a positive reinforcer for a lever contact operant.
In Experiment 3, an artificialconsummatory response was added to make the cocaine reinforcement episode more behaviorally comparable to that occasioned by food. Although the
rats readily performed this response when it was required to receive cocaine infusions, they still did not contact a lever
that signaled the availability of these infusions. It appears that cocaine is different from other positive reinforcers (e.g.,
food, water, warmth, or intracranial stimulation) in that it will not produce sign-tracking in rats. 相似文献
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M. A. Ungless 《Learning & behavior》1998,26(1):15-19
Following brief pairing of an odor with a feeding experience (food-attraction conditioning), snails will lower their tentacles when subsequently presented with that odor alone. Three experiments investigated the possible behavioral mechanism mediating food-attraction conditioning in the snailHelix aspersa. It is suggested that food-attraction conditioning is an example of Pavlovian conditioning. In this case, the odor (conditioned stimulus) is paired with oral stimulation (unconditioned stimulus), which elicits lowering of the tentacles (unconditioned response). Following conditioning, the odor comes to elicit lowering of the tentacles (conditioned response). Experiment 1 ruled out nonassociative effects, such as habituation and sensitization, using an unpaired control group. Experiment 2 provided further evidence against a role for habituation of neophobia, through the demonstration of extinction following conditioning. In Experiment 3, an omission procedure was used to rule out the possible role of instrumental contingencies. 相似文献
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In Experiment 1, a group of rats were runway trained on each of two reward series for 32 days. The two series consisted of three runs, the first two of which were, respectively, rewarded and nonrewarded; the third run was rewarded in one series but nonrewarded in the other. A 40-min interval separated the two series; the first and second runs within the series were separated by a 10-min interval, whereas the second and third runs were separated by a 30-sec interval. The reward (and nonreward) events and temporal cues of the two series are designated R-NR/R-NN. A second group was similarly trained, with the exception that the 10-min interval separated the second and third runs (RN-R/RN-N). Both groups developed appropriate differential running on the third run of the two series, and the RN-R/RN-N animals ran appropriately (slowly) on the second run of both series. Appropriate Run 2 performance appeared in one half of the R-NR/R-NN animals (depending upon order of series presentation); the remaining half ran faster on Run 2 of the R-NR series than on the same run of the R-NN series, an effect currently termed interevent anticipation. A cue shift phase in which all within-series intervals were 30 sec showed that the temporal intervals were controlling performance before the shift. Experiment 2 showed that interevent anticipation appears when all within-series intervals are either 10 min or 30 sec from the beginning of training, suggesting that the elimination of interevent anticipation in Experiment 1 was due to the differential cuing of runs by the temporal intervals rather than the particular interval duration. The overall findings suggest that the similarity of Run 2 and Run 3 performance termed interevent anticipation may be due to a failure to discriminate the ordinal position of runs within a series. 相似文献
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V. D. Chamizo Clara A. Rodríguez Irene Torres Marta N. Torres N. J. Mackintosh 《Learning & behavior》2014,42(4):348-356
In Experiment 1, two groups of female rats were trained in a triangular pool to find a hidden platform whose location was defined in terms of a single a landmark, a cylinder outside the pool. For one group, the landmark had only a single pattern (i.e., it looked the same when approached from any direction), while for the other, the landmark contained four different patterns (i.e., it looked different when approached from different directions). The first group learned to swim to the platform more rapidly than the second. Experiment 2 confirmed this difference when female rats were trained in a circular pool but found that male rats learned equally rapidly (and as rapidly as females trained with the single-pattern landmark) with both landmarks. This second finding was confirmed in Experiment 3. Finally, in Experiment 4a and 4b, male and female rats were trained either with the same, single-pattern landmark on all trials or with a different landmark each day. Males learned equally rapidly (and as rapidly as females trained with the unchanged landmark) whether the landmark changed or not. We conclude that male and female rats learn rather different things about the landmark that signals the location of the platform. 相似文献
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Eight homing pigeons, trained to fly between two elevated feeders within a flight tunnel, were tested for their ability to discriminate between two magnetic field stimuli and two acoustic stimuli, using a unitary discrete-trials procedure with successive presentation of stimuli. Magnetic stimuli consisted of the ambient magnetic field and a reduced magnetic field in which the vertical component of the field was reduced to 50% of its ambient value. Acoustic stimuli consisted of an ambient white noise and the white noise plus a tone. Stimuli were paired with food reward and either a time penalty (Experiment 1) or electric shock (Experiment 2). Although subjects could discriminate sounds with our procedures, none of the subjects demonstrated discrimination of magnetic fields. The failure of pigeons to discriminate magnetic stimuli is discussed as a consequence of either the failure to provide conditions sufficient for such discrimination or the absence of a magnetic sense in these animals. 相似文献
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Behavior reduced as a consequence of extinction or intervention can relapse. According to behavioral momentum theory, the extent to which behavior persists and relapses once it has been eliminated depends on the relative training reinforcement rate among discriminative stimuli. In addition, studies of context renewal reveal that relapse depends on the similarity between the training stimulus context and the test stimulus context following disruption by extinction. In the present experiments with pigeons, we arranged different reinforcement rates in the presence of distinct discriminative stimuli across components of a multiple schedule. Following extinction, we attempted to reinstate responding in the presence of those target components with response-independent food presentations. Importantly, we arranged the reinstating food presentations either within the target components or in separate components, either paired with extinction (Experiment 1) or reinforcement (Experiment 2) during baseline. Reinstatement increased with greater training reinforcement rates when the reinstating food presentations were arranged in the target components and the separate components paired with reinforcement during training. Reinstatement was smaller and was not systematically related to training reinforcement rates in the target components when reinstating food presentation occurred in separate components paired with extinction. These findings suggest that relapse depends on the history of reinforcement associated with the discriminative stimuli in which the relapse-inducing event occurs. 相似文献
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Marie -Christine Buhot 《Learning & behavior》1987,15(4):382-394
In this study, mice’s preferences for nestboxes of various sizes were investigated by using, in social conditions, a progressive elimination procedure. Male and female groups (Experiment 1) preferred the medium-small nestbox (15 cm in diameter) as a nest site, followed by the next smaller or next larger one; the largest boxes were chosen last. The order of initial exploration gave different results, with the mice ranking the nestboxes in this case by decreasing order of size. No systematic gender- or group-size-related effects were observed. Six groups of 2 male mice and four groups of 3 male mice (Experiment 2) were subjected to two elimination tests among nestboxes that differed in either both their inner and outer dimensions (matched condition) or their inner dimensions alone (mismatched condition). Except for the smallest nestbox, which was rejected by the mice, the order of preference for nestboxes was linear, in the direction of increasing size. No difference was observed between matched versus mismatched conditions. By contrast, the initial visits (and the number of visits) took the order of decreasing nestbox size, but only in the matched condition, in which the outer dimensions varied; in the mismatched condition, in which the nestboxes were identical on the outside, the various inner dimensions were not found to have any systematic effect on exploratory activity. These results are discussed in terms of the relevance of the spatial features, depending on the motivation (exploration or nest establishment) underlying behavior at a particular time. 相似文献
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In seven experiments, an effect of the intertriai interval (ITI) duration on barpressing by rats was studied. A stimulus signaled a 15-sec variable-interval trial. The first response after the interval elapsed turned the stimulus off and was rewarded with food. Trials were separated by long (about 300 sec) or short (about 10 sec) ITIs. A within-subjects design established that response rate on trials after long ITIs was lower than that after short ITIs (Experiments 1 and 3–7). The effect was not cumulative (the effect of one and five consecutive short ITIs was the same). Response rate after short and long ITIs was the same when a between-subjects design was used (Experiment 2). Response rate was higher after 160-sec ITIs than after 300-sec ITIs, suggesting that the ITI duration at which all longer ITIs are treated the same (i.e., the upper limit) is greater than 160 sec (Experiment 3). When food, the trial stimulus, a novel stimulus, or a familiar stimulus never paired with food, was presented 10 sec before the next trial during some of the long ITIs, response rate on the next trial was similar to that found after 10-sec ITIs (Experiments 4–6). This similarity suggested that these events could mark the start of the ITI. However, the familiar stimulus did so only when it reliably predicted that the next trial would occur after a short interval. The effect of ITI duration on responding was apparently attributable to response latency. Response latency was greater after long ITIs, but once responding began, it was similar after long and short ITIs (Experiment 7). 相似文献
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These studies demonstrated the acquisition and extinction of conditioned tolerance to the analgesic effect of nicotine in
rats. In Experiment 1, distinctive environmental cues were either paired or unpaired with nicotine. Following acquisition,
the paired group was more tolerant to nicotine than the unpaired and saline groups. Conditioned tolerance was extinguished
in the paired group after placebo sessions in the distinctive environment. Experiment 2 examined whether the distinctive environment
functioned as a CS or as an occasion setter for injection cues. After acquisition, exposure to the distinctive environment,
with or without placebo injections, resulted in extinction. This demonstrates that the distinctive environment served as a
CS, not as an occasion setter for injection cues. 相似文献
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Gavan P. McNally Marika C. Gorrisen Lee-fay Low R. Frederick Westbrook 《Learning & behavior》1999,27(4):416-425
Rats were used in four experiments to study the effects on behavior and pain sensitivity of exposure to a context previously
paired with footshock or injection of the emetic drug lithium chloride (LiCl). Exposure to a context previously paired with
footshock or injection of LiCl provoked the species-typical defense response of freezing (Experiments 1A and 1B). Exposure
to a context previously paired with footshock additionally produced hypoalgesia when rats were tested using the tailflick
test (Experiment 1A). By contrast, exposure to a context previously paired with injection of LiCl produced hyperalgesia when
rats were tested using the tailflick test (Experiment 1B). However, exposure to a context previously paired with injection
of LiCl did provoke hypoalgesia when rats were tested for pain sensitivity using either the hotplate or formalin tests (Experiment
2), which was mediated by the release of endogenous opioid peptides (Experiment 3). These results are discussed with reference
to the processes governing associative regulation of defensive behavior and pain control. 相似文献
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A series of experiments were run to test the hypothesis that “spontaneous forgetting” could result from subtle contextual changes. The first experiment demonstrated that when Sprague-Dawley male rats are trained in a runway alley with a food reinforcer, retention performance is dramatically affected by a change in the pattern of the walls of the training apparatus when testing takes place 1, 3, or 5 days following training and not after 1 week. Experiment 2 demonstrated that this performance deficit cannot be alleviated by any of the three selected cuing treatments, whereas “spontaneous forgetting” (resulting from a training-to-test interval of 14 days) can be. These data indicate that the detrimental effect of contextual change reduces over time, and that such an effect cannot be interpreted in terms of retrieval failure. These results lend strong support to the argument that the disruptive contextual change effect is basically different from the disruptive effect that results from an extended training-to-test interval. 相似文献