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Discriminative stimulus training and selective stimulus control in rats
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Discriminative stimulus training and selective stimulus control in rats. Name: Mark Miller ID number: 3330061 Course: PSYC 111 Lab Group: 103 Tutor: Jacqueline Harris Date Due: 9 May 2002 Abstract The aim of the experiment was to show that rats demonstrated stimulus discrimination and selective stimulus control during operant conditioning. The first hypothesis was the subject would learn to discriminate between the VR16 conditions that signal reinforcement and the EXT conditions. It was also hypothesised that the stimulus used to discriminate between VR16 and EXT would either be the light or the tone, not a combination. The participant in this experiment was a 16-month-old, female, Spague - Dawley albino rat that was randomly selected from a group of 20. The apparatus used was an operant chamber, which delivered two stimuli (a light and a tone) to the subject, and a reinforcer of diluted condensed milk. During the first week of experimentation the subject underwent discrimination training, this was followed by a...
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