Goldfish Lab Report

While the goal of the goldfish lab was to teach the subject how to jump, this objective was unachieved, resulting in the inability to have our fish learn the trick. This outcome was most likely do to the minimal capacity in the brain of the goldfish, making it hard for the animal to remember how to perform the skill being taught. The fish only has a memory that lasts 3 seconds; however, the task took longer than 3 seconds to complete, resulting in the incapability of performing the jump. Also, the goldfish would not eat the food that was provided, influencing the failure of completing the trick because the fish would not interact with the incentive that was presented. In order to persuade the goldfish to complete the task, the food was going to be constantly raised higher until it located out of the water, in which the fish would have to jump and reach it. With the fish showing a great level of uninterest in the food, it resulted in the failure to teach the fish to jump since there was nothing to engage the animal with. …show more content…
With the fish, the food was not a great enough reward to encourage a jump to be completed and a failure to complete the task assigned. This idea is similar to many other organisms, such as humans, because the organism is more likely to complete a task when a reward is given when compared to a task when nothing is received once finished. This lab has allowed for the conclusion to be drawn that all organisms will react and complete tasks when a reward an incentive is given because even though the fish could not complete the jump since the fish was not interested in the food, the organism did present some moments of interest when there was a change in the environment that appeared to be interesting, such as the movement of other students across the