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      IMPULSE CONTROL IN PIGEONS1

      Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
      Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior

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          Abstract

          Pigeons were given a small, immediate food reinforcement for pecking a key, and a larger, delayed reinforcement for not pecking this key. Most subjects pecked the key on more than 95% of trials. However, when pecking a differently colored key at an earlier time prevented this option from becoming available, three of 10 subjects consistently pecked it, thereby forcing themselves to wait for the larger reward. They did not peck the earlier key when it did not prevent this option. This is an experimental example of psychological impulse and a learnable device to control it. Although only a minority of the subjects learned it, the fact that such learning is possible at all argues for a theory of delayed reward that can predict change of preference as a function of elapsing time.

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                Journal
                Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
                Society for the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
                00225002
                May 1974
                May 1974
                February 26 2013
                : 21
                : 3
                : 485-489
                Article
                10.1901/jeab.1974.21-485
                1333221
                16811760
                f1b3c518-fa86-4ba1-b53a-b65a92657f68
                © 2013

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