Introduction
Behavior is generally both physical and psychological response towards stimuli. It encompasses organism’s observable physical movements and internal psychological process, summing up to how an organism responds with the environment. Sniffy experiment seeks to demonstrate how the virtual rat responds to tone and shock variation. It is possible to measure organism behavior using one or more parameters, including duration, intensity, and frequency.
While experimentation is a better tool for learning, it is typically the understanding of discrete behavior with an inclusion of variation of the dimensions, intensity, frequency, duration, and the degree of observable and desired behavior. These changes are partially dependent on deviations …show more content…
In addition, the version used in this study was the more basic Sniffy Lite 2.0.
Apparatus
A computer utilized to run the Sniffy Lite 2.0 program. A sample Sniffy, the Virtual Rat that was trained to press the lever for food. Their computer was a standard Dell desktop, with a mouse keyboard and a monitor.
In the program, Sniffy lived in a skinner box comprising of a white light, speaker, a lever, a tray for food pellets, which were all set on one wall, the base of the cage, which administers electrical shocks and three otherwise blank walls. The program also had a window that displays the operant associations that Sniffy had learned foo, action strength and bar sounds.
Black word document was help in recording cumulative readings of Sniffy functions.
Procedure
Sniffy Lite 2.0 program was opened and saved. The operant association windows and the cumulative opened. An operant experiment with an f1-5 schedule was run and sniffy isolated until its association was near or at their optimum level, the interval was increased gradualy to F1-10. When sniffy association neared or was at their max level, the schedule was switched to a FR-5 schedule and later increased to a FR-10 schedule. The adding up readings were cut paste into a blank word sheet and …show more content…
Responses were more spread out over interval between reinforcement. Occasionally, there is certain part that that have longer pauses than usual but they are not frequent. When FR-5 was introduced, the responses rate was slow, and there were pauses in between the responses an indication that Sniffy was s still operating on the F1 schedule and hence waited before responding. On the contrary, When FR-10 was introduced, the response was rapid, and there were no long pauses in between. At this transition, Sniffy was performing new association concerning the number of responses it had to make before being reinforced thus responded at a higher rate than normal.
Based on the study it can be concluded that there are visible difference between the patterns of respond maintained by the fixed –interval and fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement. As these schedules maintain a predictable effect on performance , it is imperative that further research be done on a wider range of species so not only so as to gauge its influence over performance in other fields, but also to aid in increasing functionality, as well as adaptation to the organism
Behavior is generally both physical and psychological response towards stimuli. It encompasses organism’s observable physical movements and internal psychological process, summing up to how an organism responds with the environment. Sniffy experiment seeks to demonstrate how the virtual rat responds to tone and shock variation. It is possible to measure organism behavior using one or more parameters, including duration, intensity, and frequency.
While experimentation is a better tool for learning, it is typically the understanding of discrete behavior with an inclusion of variation of the dimensions, intensity, frequency, duration, and the degree of observable and desired behavior. These changes are partially dependent on deviations …show more content…
In addition, the version used in this study was the more basic Sniffy Lite 2.0.
Apparatus
A computer utilized to run the Sniffy Lite 2.0 program. A sample Sniffy, the Virtual Rat that was trained to press the lever for food. Their computer was a standard Dell desktop, with a mouse keyboard and a monitor.
In the program, Sniffy lived in a skinner box comprising of a white light, speaker, a lever, a tray for food pellets, which were all set on one wall, the base of the cage, which administers electrical shocks and three otherwise blank walls. The program also had a window that displays the operant associations that Sniffy had learned foo, action strength and bar sounds.
Black word document was help in recording cumulative readings of Sniffy functions.
Procedure
Sniffy Lite 2.0 program was opened and saved. The operant association windows and the cumulative opened. An operant experiment with an f1-5 schedule was run and sniffy isolated until its association was near or at their optimum level, the interval was increased gradualy to F1-10. When sniffy association neared or was at their max level, the schedule was switched to a FR-5 schedule and later increased to a FR-10 schedule. The adding up readings were cut paste into a blank word sheet and …show more content…
Responses were more spread out over interval between reinforcement. Occasionally, there is certain part that that have longer pauses than usual but they are not frequent. When FR-5 was introduced, the responses rate was slow, and there were pauses in between the responses an indication that Sniffy was s still operating on the F1 schedule and hence waited before responding. On the contrary, When FR-10 was introduced, the response was rapid, and there were no long pauses in between. At this transition, Sniffy was performing new association concerning the number of responses it had to make before being reinforced thus responded at a higher rate than normal.
Based on the study it can be concluded that there are visible difference between the patterns of respond maintained by the fixed –interval and fixed ratio schedule of reinforcement. As these schedules maintain a predictable effect on performance , it is imperative that further research be done on a wider range of species so not only so as to gauge its influence over performance in other fields, but also to aid in increasing functionality, as well as adaptation to the organism