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Science 1 December 1972:
Vol. 178. no. 4064, pp. 1002 - 1004
DOI: 10.1126/science.178.4064.1002
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Acquisition of Key-Pecking via Autoshaping as a Function of Prior Experience: "Learned Laziness"?

Larry A. Engberg 1, Gary Hansen 1, Robert L. Welker 1, and David R. Thomas 1

1 Department of Psychology, University of Colorado, Boulder 80302

A group of pigeons that had previously received noncontingent food delivery acquired the key-peck response (in autoshape training) more slowly than did a naive control group; key-peck acquisition was most rapid for a group given operant treadle-press training in the initial phase.


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A. TOMIE (1976)
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Pitfalls of Organismic Concepts: "Learned Laziness"?.
E. R. Gamzu, D. R. Williams, B. Schwartz, R. L. Welker, G. Hansen, L. A. Engberg, and D. R. Thomas (1973)
Science 181, 367-369
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