Dwi Atmoko Agung Nugroho
Indonesia
Short Communication
Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB) as a Maladaptive Function of Previous Learning
Experience in a Single Female Pig-Tail Macaque (Macaca nemestrina) Model (A
Hypothesis)
Author(s): Dwi Atmoko Agung NugrohoDwi Atmoko Agung Nugroho
Aim: This paper aims to describe how to decrease hair-plucking behavior in a female pig-tail macaque model as one of Self-Injurious Behavior (SIB) representations of human behavior by using a different way called 'pulling back' technique. Method: An action researched by applying an environmental analyses used to examined its effectiveness on the case. The subject inserted from an artificial individual cage without any grass into a semi natural cage with plenty of grass, leaf, and insects. An instantaneous sampling method (per minute in a ten minutes) used to calculated the amount of hair-plucking behavior between two conditions. Result and discussion: The level of hair-plucking behavior was lower at the semi natural cage with plenty of grass, leaf, and insects. It shown us that hair-plucking behavior had been replaceable by plucking grass, leaf, and insects. It seems that plucking gra.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2378-5756.1000408