SELF‐CONTROL IN PIGEONS UNDER THE MISCHEL PARADIGM
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior
- Vol. 35 (1), 3-21
- https://doi.org/10.1901/jeab.1981.35-3
Abstract
Walter Mischel studied self-control in preschool children in the following manner: if the child waited for an interval to end, he or she received the more preferred of two reinforcers; if the child responded to terminate the interval by ringing a bell, the less preferred reinforcer was given. We used an analogous procedure to study self-control in pigeons: if the bird waited for a trial to end, it received the more preferred reinforcer; if the bird terminated the trial by pecking a key, the less preferred reinforcer was given. We explored the effects on self-control of a number of variables analogous to those studied by Mischel and co-workers, e.g., presence versus absence of reinforcers, of alternative responses, and of stimuli during the wait interval; prior experience of the subjects; and test paradigm. The results obtained with pigeons paralleled the results obtained by Mischel with human children.Keywords
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