Procedure: We used the "FR10" program.
Observations and Discussion:
After yesterday's success I was excited to move on to the FR10 schedule. I knew that this would be the last training day before extinction of the behavior, so I was hoping Despereaux would continue to show progress in her learning. Overall she performed well, with 392 bar presses, but she seemed to be more distracted than she had been in previous days. As seen on the cumulative record, she had a few times where she did not press the bar for several minutes. During these times she would groom, sniff, or just sit in the corner of the box.
This FR10 schedule was the furthest we were able to train her with the time constraints. Over the course of the training Despereaux made vast improvements in the number of times she would press the bar. On FR1 she only had an average of 45 bar presses per 30 minute session, and in FR10 she had almost 400! She also decreased grooming and other distracting behaviors as time went on.
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| Sunday (10/6) |
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