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Scaling Pigeons' Choice of Feeds: Bigger is Better

Overview
Journal J Exp Anal Behav
Specialties Psychology
Social Sciences
Date 1993 Jul 1
PMID 8354967
Citations 12
Authors
P R Killeen
H Cate
T Tran
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Abstract

Preferences of hungry pigeons among 10 grains and pellets were analyzed using a Thurstone scaling procedure. The recovered scales were positively correlated with size of the feed. The correlations improved when the Thurstonian assumption of equal-sized discriminal dispersions (Case V) was replaced with the assumption of proportional-sized dispersions (Case VI), as entailed by Weber's law. The correlations weakened when the experiments were conducted with the pigeons close to their free-feeding weights, where the probability of sampling alternative grains increased. In the final experiment, exposure to a large pellet shifted the preferences between two smaller pellets.

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