The Effect of Arousal and of Learning upon Sucking Behavior in the Newborn

摘要: There is increasing evidence that the first experiences of animal and man have a significant influence on their later psychological development. Food one earliest reinforcements for neonate, therefore feeding experience may be primal activity which initiates maintains infant’s subsequent repertoire behavior. Behavioral-control techniques are useful methods evaluating effect rein-forcers such as food upon acquisition maintenance The mammalian newborn obtains its primarily by sucking. Therefore, using operant level sucking base line, it possible to define reinforcement in terms response probability, analyze experimentally relationship between environmental contingencies A behavioral-control technique utilizing was developed our laboratory deter mine mechanisms early modifies