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Record W2590828580 · doi:10.1093/beheco/arx007

What’s flexible in behavioral flexibility?

2017· article· en· W2590828580 on OpenAlexaff
Jean‐Nicolas Audet, Louis Lefebvre

Bibliographic record

VenueBehavioral Ecology · 2017
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPrimate Behavior and Ecology
Canadian institutionsMcGill University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFlexibility (engineering)Cognitive flexibilitySet (abstract data type)Cognitive psychologyCognitionTerm (time)PersonalityBig Five personality traitsBehavioral syndromeBiologyCognitive sciencePsychologyComputer scienceSocial psychologyNeuroscience

Abstract

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Behavioral ecologists interested in comparative cognition have struggled to design tasks that are both ecologically relevant and experimentally rigorous. In experimental psychology, standardized tests of reversal learning, set-shifting and self-control have long been used to measure aspects of flexible behavior especially with regards to determining the neural mechanisms that enable animals and humans to rapidly and efficiently adapt to different situations. More recently, behavioral ecologists have used the term “behavioral flexibility” more broadly to explain differences in traits such as personality and innovation. Here, we argue that the term behavioral flexibility designates too many non-equivalent traits, and that this can lead to misconceptions about the nature of cognitive abilities.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.011
Scholarly communication0.0030.005
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.149
GPT teacher head0.451
Teacher spread0.303 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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