SNIFFY THE RAT EXPERIMENTS

SNIFFY THE RAT EXPERIMENTS Order Description Write up descriptions for each experiment - note the IV, the DV, and (using the data from the book), explain in you own words what happened (describe patterns and such you note within the results). Add a statement (in your own words) that describes what the results indicate in the bigger picture (e.g., if you note that Sniffy stopped responding with a single shock [punisher], what does that tell you about behavior in general? Write each up as a "mini experiment". SNIFFY THE RAT EXPERIMENTS Sniffy Assignment: Classical Conditioning • Ex. 1 – Basic Acquisition of a CR • Ex. 2 – Extinction • Ex. 3 – Spontaneous Recovery • Ex. 7 – Blocking • Ex. 8 – Overshadowing Sniffy Assignment: Shaping • Ex. 22 – Magazine Training • Ex. 23 – Shaping Sniffy to Press the bar • Ex. 25 – Extinction • Ex. 27 – Spontaneous Recovery • Ex. 30 - The Effect of Single Severe Punishment Sniffy Assignment: Ratio Schedule • Ex. 32: Placing Sniffy on a small VR schedule • Ex. 33: Increasing the value of Sniffy’s VR schedule • Ex. 34: Variable-Interval schedules • Ex. 35: Fixed-ratio schedules • Ex. 36: Fixed-interval schedules Sniffy Assignment: Extinction • Ex. 29: The effect of a single mild punishment • Ex. 31: The effect of repeated mild punishment • Ex. 39: Simple tone-on S+ discrimination learning • Ex. 41: Simple tone-on S- discrimination learning • Ex. 43: S+/S- discrimination learning