Three students in a “Psychology of Learning” class enter a rat training contest. At the beginning of the contest each student is given a rat that performs 2 behaviors regularly. Behavior “A” is desirable and behavior “B” is undesirable. Their goal is to increase the rate of behavior “A” and decrease the rate of behavior “B”. At the start of the contest, each rat had a toy in their cage that they enjoyed playing with almost continuously. Here is what each contestant did. Dave did nothing when the animal performed behavior “B”. He gave food on every first occurrence of behavior “A” after 5 minutes had elapsed. Sara removed the rat’s toy every time behavior “B” occurred. She delivered food about every 5th time (on average) the rat performed behavior “A”. Marcus shocked the rat every 3rd time it did behavior “B” and gave it food every time it performed behavior “A”. (hint: write it all down) Who administered punishment on a continuous schedule? None of these Sara Marcus Dave

Three students in a “Psychology of Learning” class enter a rat training contest. At the beginning of the contest each student is given a rat that performs 2 behaviors regularly. Behavior “A” is desirable and behavior “B” is undesirable. Their goal is to increase the rate of behavior “A” and decrease the rate of behavior “B”. At the start of the contest, each rat had a toy in their cage that they enjoyed playing with almost continuously. Here is what each contestant did. Dave did nothing when the animal performed behavior “B”. He gave food on every first occurrence of behavior “A” after 5 minutes had elapsed. Sara removed the rat’s toy every time behavior “B” occurred. She delivered food about every 5th time (on average) the rat performed behavior “A”. Marcus shocked the rat every 3rd time it did behavior “B” and gave it food every time it performed behavior “A”. (hint: write it all down) Who administered punishment on a continuous schedule?

None of these

Sara

Marcus

Dave