Schedules of Reinforcement

After Jubilee successfully achieved the FR schedule, I began to slowly stretch the ratio, and move on to higher FR schedules.

DAY 6
I moved her schedule up to an FR2 and observed her actions for 27:38. In this time period she pressed the lever 201 times!

DAY 7-10
Jubilee continued to do well at each of the different schedules until we reached FR10.
FR3- 26:08 309 lever presses= 103 reinforcements
FR5- 25:40 344 lever presses= 68 reinforcements
FR7- 26:20 356 lever presses= 50 reinforcements
FR10-  30:00 281 lever presses= 28 reinforcements

Since she did not achieve the minimum of 50 on the FR10, we will continue with another day on FR10 until she achieves this minimum.

One thing I did notice was the Post-Reinforcement pause got substantially larger when we moved up to FR10. She would take very large breaks in between pressing the lever causing time to run out and a significantly decreased amount of responses.