%0 Journal Article %1 RefWorks:177 %A Johnson, Roger N. %A Johnson, Loraine D. %D 1973 %J Animal Behaviour %K conditioning nocopy operant reinforcement betta-splendens %N 4 %P 665--672 %T Intra- and interspecific social, and aggressive behaviour in the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens %V 21 %X Operantly conditioned 4 male Siamese fighting fish and 4 male paradise fish to swim through a cylinder to open a door allowing them to explore visually conspecifics, nonconspecifics, or inanimate objects. All stimuli significantly elevated response levels compared to control conditions, but response rate for conspecifics was not higher than for other stimuli. In Exp II and III, 12 male fighting fish threatened and attacked nonconspecifics as well as conspecifics, and using a blind procedure, displays to different fish could not be easily differentiated. Exp IV with models failed to reveal any specific shape critical to the elicitation of the threat display by the same 12 Ss. Discussion considers the possibility that the operant behavior of the fighting fish may be motivated by visual exploration as well as by aggression, and that in actual fighting the social behavior of the opponent may be more crucial than any particular visual stimulus.

@article{RefWorks:177, abstract = {Operantly conditioned 4 male Siamese fighting fish and 4 male paradise fish to swim through a cylinder to open a door allowing them to explore visually conspecifics, nonconspecifics, or inanimate objects. All stimuli significantly elevated response levels compared to control conditions, but response rate for conspecifics was not higher than for other stimuli. In Exp II and III, 12 male fighting fish threatened and attacked nonconspecifics as well as conspecifics, and using a blind procedure, displays to different fish could not be easily differentiated. Exp IV with models failed to reveal any specific shape critical to the elicitation of the threat display by the same 12 Ss. Discussion considers the possibility that the operant behavior of the fighting fish may be motivated by visual exploration as well as by aggression, and that in actual fighting the social behavior of the opponent may be more crucial than any particular visual stimulus.}, added-at = {2006-10-20T08:08:49.000+0200}, author = {Johnson, Roger N. and Johnson, Loraine D.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/23636528170f4ee06f168ebc72c08ffbb/toby}, citeulike-article-id = {163367}, date-modified = {2006-10-19 01:06:20 -0500}, interhash = {89618b90b356f031c373f65be7f6bf50}, intrahash = {3636528170f4ee06f168ebc72c08ffbb}, journal = {Animal Behaviour}, keywords = {conditioning nocopy operant reinforcement betta-splendens}, month = {November}, number = 4, pages = {665--672}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2006-10-20T08:08:49.000+0200}, title = {Intra- and interspecific social, and aggressive behaviour in the Siamese fighting fish, Betta splendens}, volume = 21, year = 1973 }