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Phases of Inhibition and Response During Investigation of Stimulus Change By the Domestic Chick

Phases of Inhibition and Response During Investigation of Stimulus Change By the Domestic Chick PHASES OF INHIBITION AND RESPONSE DURING INVESTIGATION OF STIMULUS CHANGE BY THE DOMESTIC CHICK by D. A. CLAYTON 1) and R. J. ANDREW (Ethology and Neurophysiology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.) (With I Figure) (Acc. 30-IX-I978) INTRODUCTION The complex nature of the effects of novel stimuli on behaviour are well known, and are not unexpected in view of the variety of incompatible re- sponses which can be evoked. It is common (and reasonable) to assume that freezing, fleeing and exploration become more or less likely to be evoked relative to each other as the degree of novelty changes (HINDE, 1970). HOGAN (1965), for example, argues that freezing and immobility and in- hibition of response become more likely in chicks the greater the change in the environment. Observation of domestic chicks in the presence of a novel stimulus sug- gested that the distinction between a phase of investigation in which response was inhibited, and one in which the chick showed signs of being very ready to respond deserved further study. The chick has a number of advantages for such a purpose. Firstly, it has been much used in studies of the effects of circumscribed http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Behaviour Brill

Phases of Inhibition and Response During Investigation of Stimulus Change By the Domestic Chick

Behaviour , Volume 69 (1-2): 36 – Jan 1, 1979

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Brill
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© 1979 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0005-7959
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1568-539X
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10.1163/156853979X00386
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PHASES OF INHIBITION AND RESPONSE DURING INVESTIGATION OF STIMULUS CHANGE BY THE DOMESTIC CHICK by D. A. CLAYTON 1) and R. J. ANDREW (Ethology and Neurophysiology Group, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton, U.K.) (With I Figure) (Acc. 30-IX-I978) INTRODUCTION The complex nature of the effects of novel stimuli on behaviour are well known, and are not unexpected in view of the variety of incompatible re- sponses which can be evoked. It is common (and reasonable) to assume that freezing, fleeing and exploration become more or less likely to be evoked relative to each other as the degree of novelty changes (HINDE, 1970). HOGAN (1965), for example, argues that freezing and immobility and in- hibition of response become more likely in chicks the greater the change in the environment. Observation of domestic chicks in the presence of a novel stimulus sug- gested that the distinction between a phase of investigation in which response was inhibited, and one in which the chick showed signs of being very ready to respond deserved further study. The chick has a number of advantages for such a purpose. Firstly, it has been much used in studies of the effects of circumscribed

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Published: Jan 1, 1979

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