Socially mediated learning in maleBetta splendens. III

In four experiments with male Siamese fighting fish, the classical conditioning of visual/spatial cues with elicitors of aggression was demonstrated. These studies show that this type of socially mediated learning is more rapidly conditioned than was previously known. One 15-min training session is adequate to condition a preference for those cues that had recently been paired with conspecific images. Finally, behavior occurring during acquisition, in the presence of aggression-eliciting cues, was uncorrelated with the magnitude of the learned preferences that were assayed during extinction tests and in the absence of social stimuli.

Aggression · Biology · Classical conditioning · Cognitive psychology · Conditioning · Developmental psychology · Extinction (optical mineralogy) · Fish <Actinopterygii> · Preference · Sensory cue · Social cue · Social learning · Social preferences · Uncorrelated · Amphibian and Reptile Biology · Animal Behavior and Reproduction · Communication · Fish biology, ecology, and behavior · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology

• The reinforcing value of several types of aggressive behavior

  Open Access•Michael Potegal•Aggressive Behavior•1979

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