Our goal today was to go through our first few steps again and if possible begin to move on to nose or paw on the lever. Once again we were trying to get her to associate the lever with food.
Procedure:
We started by reinforcing movement toward the bar. Once she seemed to be staying in area of the bar we began to move on to her making contact with the bar. She made more contact with the bar so we began to only reinforce her for bar contact. After a few minutes though she seemed to digress so we took a few steps back and worked our way back to bar contact.
Results:
She began to make more contact with the bar. A few times we had to back track a few steps but in the end she seemed to be making more of an association with the lever and food. Toward the end of the session she seemed to become satiated and no longer motivated to continue pressing the bar. Today she pressed the lever 10 times and we gave her 55 reinforcements. The session lasted for 28 minutes.
Discussion:
Today we seemed to make some progress. Even though we had to back up a few times I feel that in the end she began to learn what we wanted her to learn. She seemed to finally be associating the lever with food. She sometimes still gets distracted but today seemed better and she seemed to stay motivated longer.
Cumulative Record
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