Why Do Adult Dogs (Canis familiaris) Commit the A-not-B Search Error?
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Why Do Adult Dogs (Canis familiaris) Commit the A-not-B Search Error?
Létrehozó:
Sümegi, Zsófia
Vargáné Kis, Anna
Miklósi, Ádám
Topál, József
Dátum:
2014-02
Téma:
BF08 Comparative psychology / összehasonlító pszichol.
QL Zoology / állattan
Tartalmi leírás:
It has been recently reported that adult domestic dogs, like human infants, tend to commit perseverative
search errors; that is, they select the previously rewarded empty location in Piagetian A-not-B search task
because of the experimenter?s ostensive communicative cues. There is, however, an ongoing debate over
whether these findings reveal that dogs can use the human ostensive referential communication as a
source of information or the phenomenon can be accounted for by ?more simple? explanations like
insufficient attention and learning based on local enhancement. In 2 experiments the authors systematically
manipulated the type of human cueing (communicative or noncommunicative) adjacent to the A
hiding place during both the A and B trials. Results highlight 3 important aspects of the dogs? A-not-B
error: (a) search errors are influenced to a certain extent by dogs? motivation to retrieve the toy object;
(b) human communicative and noncommunicative signals have different error-inducing effects; and
(3) communicative signals presented at the A hiding place during the B trials but not during the A trials
play a crucial role in inducing the A-not-B error and it can be induced even without demonstrating
repeated hiding events at location A. These findings further confirm the notion that perseverative search
error, at least partially, reflects a ?ready-to-obey? attitude in the dog rather than insufficient attention
and/or working memory.
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Sümegi, Zsófia and Vargáné Kis, Anna and Miklósi, Ádám and Topál, József (2014) Why Do Adult Dogs (Canis familiaris) Commit the A-not-B Search Error? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 128 (1). pp. 21-30. ISSN 0735-7036 (print), 1939-2087 (online)
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