Fi-B began to understand that she needs to push the lever multiple times for a pellet. To keep her on a routine as best as possible, we started the session at 3:38 pm. Our goal was for Fi-B to learn to push the bar 3 consecutive times before receiving reinforcement. She began by pushing it twice and checked the hopper for food, obviously remembering her training from FR 2 the previous day. Fi-B proceeded to give the lever 2 fast pushes and then would check. Finally after 7 minutes and 50 seconds, we recorded 3 consecutive pushes. I must admit that I find it extremely fascinating that she is starting to figure it out. She eventually learned to push the lever 2-4 times rather quickly. However, this caused her to get confused when sometimes she received a pellet after 1 push and others 3 clicks. This was due to her fast, consecutive presses. After 12 minutes and 7 seconds, she began to consistently push 3 times for a pellet. Towards the end of the training session she had a few periods of grooming. We decided to end our training session at 29 minutes and 13 seconds. Fi-B had a total of 439 presses. Wow!
(This graph shows our cumulative record for our FR3 schedule.)
The cumulative record clearly shows that at a certain point, Fi-B began to get in a pattern of pushing the bar a specific amount of times to receive reinforcement.
This training session went quite smoothly. My partner, EP, and I had no problems training her today.
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