Within-Subjects Experiments on Blocking and Facilitation in Honeybees (Apis mellifera)
Within-Subjects Experiments on Blocking and Facilitation in Honeybees (Apis mellifera)
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DOI：
10.1037/a0012623
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发表时间：
2008-11-01
影响因子：
1.4
通讯作者：
Bitterman, M. E.
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作者：
Blaser, R. E.;Couvillon, P. A.;Bitterman, M. E.
在脊椎动物的文献中一直怀疑，但最近才在蜜蜂（意大利蜜蜂）的工作中证明，在传统的组间阻断实验中对非靶刺激的不同处理可能会产生与靶刺激无关的阻断现象。同样的困难不会出现在受试者内的实验中，在一系列这样的实验中，气味和颜色自由飞行的蜜蜂没有给出阻塞的证据;单独的强化化合物的一个元素的强化介绍未能减少对第二个的反应。然而，有明确的证据，促进;单独的nonreinforced介绍一个元素的强化复合增加响应第二。进一步的工作在蜜蜂和其他动物的复合空调的结果的影响被认为是。
It has long been suspected in the vertebrate literature, but demonstrated only recently in work with honeybees (Apis mellifera), that the different treatments of nontarget stimuli in conventional between-groups blocking experiments may give the appearance of blocking independently of experience with the target stimulus. The same difficulty does not arise in within-subjects experiments, and in a series of such experiments with odors and colors free-flying honeybees gave no evidence of blocking; separate reinforced presentations of one element of a reinforced compound failed to reduce responding to the second. There was, however, clear evidence of facilitation; separate nonreinforced presentations of one element of a reinforced compound increased responding to the second. The implications of the results for further work on compound conditioning in honeybees and other animals are considered.