Recovery of Responses During Mild Punishment, Rachlin
Pigeons were punished with mild shock for pecking during one of two components of a multiple schedule. They eventually recovered so that they pecked at…
Author: Michael D'Abruzzo
Long-term partial reinforcement extinction effect and long-term partial punishment effect in a one-trial-a-day paradigm, Shemer and Feldon
Two experiments were run to demonstrate the presence of a partial reinforcement extinction effect (PREE) and a partial punishment effect (PPE) 4 weeks after training…
Learning Resistance to Pain and Fear: Effects of Overlearning, Exposure, and Rewarded Exposure in Context, Miller
In three experiments a total of 100 hungry rats were trained to run an alley for food reward and then given electric shocks at the…
Effects of Punishment Intensity During Variable Interval Reinforcement, Azrin
According to the study by Nathan H. Azrin, the effectiveness of punishment in modifying behavior depends significantly on its intensity and the context in which…
Q&A #110
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Intro to Phase 3 Escape Conditioning 5.0
Objectives What is Phase 3 Training? Phase 3 focuses on teaching dogs how to escape and avoid aversives that will be considered more motivational than…
Q&A #109
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Intro to Avoidance Conditioning in Obedience 5.0
What is avoidance conditioning? What do some examples look like? Why is it best to concentrate on it at this specific point in our checklist?…
Q&A #108
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Teaching Conditioned Punishers in Obedience 5.0
Objectives What is a conditioned punisher? Classical conditioning terminology Why is it also called a secondary punisher? Why is teaching a conditioned punisher useful? How…
Intro to Escape Conditioning in Obedience 5.0
Objectives What is escape conditioning? Why wait until “Phase 2” to teach it? Why do you want to teach mechanics before phase 2 What is…
Q&A #107
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Duration Schedules in the Command Structure 5.0
Objectives What is a duration schedule? Why do we learn it after ratio and interval? How does it relate to our command structure? How can…
Q&A #106
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Interval Schedules In the Command Structure 5.0
Interval – The period of time between reinforcement. Go over examples of how interval training is used in: Behavior does need to be constant to…