Learning Behavioral Repertoires with Different Consequences Hinders the Interconnection of These Repertoires in Pigeons
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Learning Behavioral Repertoires with Different Consequences Hinders the Interconnection of These Repertoires in Pigeons in the Box Displacement Test Hernando Borges Neves Filho 1 & Daniel Afonso Assaz 2 Yulla Christoffersen Knaus 2 & Miriam Garcia-Mijares 2
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Rodrigo Harder Ferro Dicezare 2
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# Association for Behavior Analysis International 2020
Abstract The interconnection of repertoires is a behavioral process related to problem solving and creativity. Experiments on this topic have mostly used a single reinforcer type during training. Reinforcers have an integrative effect on the emergence of new behavior; however, this assumption was never directly tested in procedures that result in the emergence of the interconnection of repertoires. To test this, six pigeons learned to: (1) push a box towards a light and (2) climb a box and peck a target. After training, pigeons were exposed to the box displacement test, a problem situation that required both behaviors to be solved. Two birds were trained with food as reinforcer for both repertoires (control condition [CC]), and four birds (experimental condition [EC]) had food as reinforcer for repertoire (1), and water for (2). CC birds solved the test in its first presentation, but EC birds did not. Birds that failed the test twice received a retraining of both repertoires, using only food as reinforcer. Half of the pigeons who received this retraining solved the task in a third trial. All pigeons that solved the task (n = 4) were given variations of the task consisting of introducing new stimuli, which, when physically similar to the functional stimuli, hindered the solution. These data indicate that the reinforcer has a similar integrative and discriminative function during the interconnection of repertoires as observed in other behavioral processes related to emergent behavior. The implications of these findings for research on creativity are discussed. Keywords Insight . Creativity . Problem solving . Novel behavior . Pigeons
Epstein, Kirshnit, Lanza, and Rubin (1984) published an experiment in which pigeons (Columba livia) showed problemsolving performances akin to what classical experimenters in psychology termed “insightful” problem solving, following the pioneer work of Köhler (1917/1948). This “insightful” Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s40732-020-00407-0) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. * Hernando Borges Neves Filho [email protected] 1
Departamento de Psicologia Geral e Análise do Comportamento, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Rodovia Celso Garcia Cid, Pr 445 Km 380, Campus Universitário, Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Cx. Postal 10.011, Londrina, Paraná 86.057-970, Brazil
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Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, Butanta, Brazil
topography of problem solving can be defined as the sudden, fluid, and directional solution of a problem without long pauses between responses related to the solution or the appearance of unre
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