Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21177
Title: A Microanalysis of the Effect of Bodyweight on Operant Behaviour With Hens
Contributor(s): Jackson, Surrey (author); Bizo, Lewis  (author); Foster, T Mary (author); McEwan, James (author)
Publication Date: 2015
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/21177
Abstract: Motivating Operations (MOs) are frequently manipulated (by altering access to commodities and manipulating other variables such as body weight) in order to change responding. This study had two aims, firstly to investigate the effect of altering body weight on concurrent schedule performance of hens, secondly to investigate the effect of altering body weight on the time duration of each component of hens' pecks under these schedules when analysed from high speed videos filmed at 240 fps. Six hens (at 85% 5%) were shaped (three via the method of successive approximations and three via autoshaping) to respond for food reinforcers on an infra-red screen. Hens then responded under a range of concurrent VI VI schedules, with body weight held at 85% 5%, 95 5% and 100 5% over conditions. It was found that applying the Generalised Matching Law to the data did not result in any consistent differences in responding with the three body weights. However, response rates, inter-response times and video analysis of the individual components of the hens pecking responses did show consistent differences between responding at the three weights.
Publication Type: Conference Publication
Conference Details: ABAI 2015: 41st Annual Convention of the Association for Behavior Analysis International, San Antonio, United States of America, 22nd - 26th May, 2015
Source of Publication: Association for Behavior Analysis International 41st Annual Convention Program
Publisher: Association for Behavior Analysis International (ABAI)
Place of Publication: online
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 170101 Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
170112 Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 520202 Behavioural neuroscience
520199 Applied and developmental psychology not elsewhere classified
520401 Cognition
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences
970107 Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280121 Expanding knowledge in psychology
280101 Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences
HERDC Category Description: E3 Extract of Scholarly Conference Publication
Publisher/associated links: https://www.abainternational.org/events/annual-2015.aspx
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