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Specifics for Lab Reports: Laboratory Report 1 (Cup Approach and Bar Press) A guide to what should be considered and discussed in this lab report.
Suggested Readings Bruner, C. A., Avila S. R., Acuna, L., & Gallardo, L. M. (1998). Effects of reinforcement rate and delay on the acquisition of lever pressing by rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 69(1), 59-75.Evans, M. J., Duval., Funk, B. L., Sparrow, J., Watson, N.T., Nueringer, A. (1994). Social reinforcement of operant behavior in rats: a methodological note. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 62, 149-156.Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Smith, S. G., & Smith, W. M. (1971). A demonstration of auto-shaping with dogs. Psychological Record, 21(3), 377-379. Stokes, P. D., & Balsam, P. D. (1991). Effects of reinforcing pre-selected approximations on the topography of the rat's bar press. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 55(2), 213-231.
Laboratory Report 2 (Extinction & Spontaneous Recovery and Schedules of Reinforcement). A guide to what should be considered and discussed in this lab report.
Suggested Readings Amsel, A., Mackinnnon, J. R., Rashotte, M. E., & Surridge, C. T. (1964). Partial reinforcement (acquisition) effects within subjects. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 7(2), 135-138.Conrad, D. G., Sidman, M., & Herrnstein, R. J. (1958). The effects of deprivation upon temporally spaced responding. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 1, 59-65. Denny, M. R. (1959). One bar-press per day: Acquisition and extinction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2, 81-85. Eckerman, D. A., & Lanson, R. N. (1969). Variability of response location for pigeons responding under continuous reinforcement, intermittent reinforcement, and extinction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12(1), 73-80. Felton, M., & Lyon, D.O. (1966). The post-reinforcement pause. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 9, 131-134. Johnson, C. M., & Denny, M. R. (1982). Inhibition of performance as a function of withdrawal from non reinforcement in a partial reinforcement situation. Psychological Record, 32(3), 315-327. Mazur, J.E. (1983). Steady-state performance on fixed-, mixed-, and random-ratio schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 39, 293-307. Rescorla, R. A. (1997). Spontaneous recovery of instrumental discriminative responding. Animal Learning and Behavior, 25(4), 485-497. Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc. Thomas, D. R., & Sherman, L. (1986). An assessment of the role of handling cues in "spontaneous recovery" after extinction. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 46(3), 305-314. Thompson, D. M. (1964). Escape from S-super(D) associated with fixed-ratio reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 7(1), 1-11. Weisberg, P., & Fink, E. (1966). Fixed ratio and extinction performance of infants in the second year of life. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 9(2), 105-109. Zarcone, T.J., Branch, M.N., Hughes, C.E., & Pennypacker, H.S. (1997). Key pecking during extinction after intermittent or continuous reinforcement as a function of the number of reinforcers delivered during training. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 67, 91-108.
Laboratory Report 3 (Discrimination and Chaining) A guide to what should be considered and discussed in this lab report.
Suggested Readings D'Andrea, T. (1969). Extinction of a heterogeneous chain after several reinforcement schedules. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 12(1), 127-135. Hachiya, S., & Ito, M. (1991). Effects of discrete-trial and free-operant procedures on the acquisition and maintenance of successive discrimination in rats. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 55(1), 3-10. Herrick, R. M., Myers, J. L., & Korotkin, A. L. (1959). Changes in S-super(D) and in S-super(!D) rates during the development of an operant discrimination. Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, 52, 359-363.Lattal, K. A., & Crawford-Godbey, C. L. (1985). Homogenous chains, heterogeneous chains, and delay of reinforcement. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 44, 337-342. Luck, S., Colgrove, M., & Neuringer, A. (1988). Response sequence learning as a function of primary versus conditioned reinforcement. Animal Learning and Behavior, 16(1), 8-14. Pisacreta, R. (1982). Concurrent sequential matching in the pigeon. Bulletin of the Psychonomic Society, 20(3), 183-186. Reilly, S., & Macphail, E. M. (1995). Discrimination training, partial reinforcement, and increases in inter trial interval all reduce response speed in a continuously reinforced key-pecking task. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 64(2), 215-224. Schrot, J., Thomas, J. R., & Banvard, R. A. (1981). Response patterning in a repeated acquisition baseline with rats. Psychological Reports, 48(2), 635-643. Skinner, B. F. (1938). The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
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