PROBABILITY-LEARNING BY THE TURTLE.
Tested in a two-choice situation, the painted turtle, Chrysemys picta picta, shows random probability-matching in visual problems and in confounded visual-spatial problems, but only maximizing or nonrandom matching (reward-following) in spatial problems. The results are compared with those of analogous experiments on fish, bird, and mammal.
D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal; D001717:Birds; D002755:Choice Behavior; D007858:Learning; D011336:Probability; D012104:Reptiles; D012106:Research; D012201:Reward; D014426:Turtles
BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL LAB STUDY; LEARNING; PROBABILITY; REPTILES