title: A comparison of the effects of social rearing and social training on approach responding of Gallus chicks.
abstract: It has been shown in an earlier paper that chicks that were housed and trained in pairs demonstrated a greater resistance to extinction of the neonatal approach response than did chicks that were housed and trained in isolation. The purpose of the present study was to attempt to replicate these results and to determine whether housing or training is the more important factor in generating the previous finding. Eighty-three, white Leghorn chicks were tested in an experiment employing a 2 × 2 factorial design comparing social vs isolate housing and social vs isolate imprinting training on resistance to extinction of a socially-reinforced running response. The data were consistent with the earlier findings and also revealed that the housing condition is more important in producing subsequent social searching than is the training condition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061 U.S.A.
authors.forename: J B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Rimpau
authors.forename: A H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Schulman