So i decided to shape the behavior of my mom. I started by leaving dishes out so that she would tell me to clean them up and then i would. I did this experiment a couple of times over the past couple days. The main factor in the environment is the dishes or dish that were left out in the kitchen. The behavior was telling me to clean them up. The consequence was me actually cleaning them up for her a positive reinforcer.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
Shaping Behavoir
My brother, Nick, and my sister, Calitlyn, enjoy playing instruments. Nick plays the clarinet while Cailtyn plays the flute. They are both in concert band and have lessons outside of school, so they do a lot of practicing. When they both practice at the same time, it becomes distracting and loud and I have a hard time concentrating on homework. When they both started practicing on Friday, I asked them to shut their bedroom doors to block some of the sound because I was trying to read for English. Later on when they went to practice, Nick asked me if I was still working on homework. I wasn't, so he was able to play while keeping the door open. The next day I was working on math, and Caitlyn wanted to practice her instrument. She knew I was working on homework, so she shut the door without me asking her to.
The environment in this experiment was whether or not I was working on homework. The behavoirs in this experiment were were whether or not my siblings would shut their bedroom door. If I wasn't doing homework, they could leave their doors open. If I had homework to do, they would shut their doors. The concequence would be that I would not bother them by asking them to shut their doors. Therefore, I would be able to concentrate on my homework. As a result, they now check to see if I am doing homework before they start practicing.
Kristen Bianchi
Operant condition dog experiment
My experiment was that I wanted to train my one year old black lab to shake hands. Her reward for this would be a dog cookie. I would give her one twice a day. First, I would have her sit, which she is trained to do, then I would say "shake". If she didn't do it, then I would pick up her right front paw and say the word "shake". Then i put it down and try it again. If she doesn't do it the second time, I pick up her paw again and say shake and actually do the motion and then give her the cookie so she knows she gets rewarded for shaking. I would also use my older dog who is trained to do it. I have my older dog shake first so she sets an example. I have tried since friday to get her to do this. We have had no success but I know were getting close. The environment is my kitchen without any body else in it so she doesn't get distracted. The behavior is shaking my hand. The reinforcemnt is the cookie and also praise for doing this task. I know if i keep working at it, eventually i will see success. I know I am close because her behavior when I tell her this changes from hyper to clam. Also I notice she shifts her weight to one side as if she was raising a paw. These characteristics are very similar to my older dog. Jacob Chernesky |
experiment
Well, I am not sure if this counts or not but I am pretty sure that what I have done is in a way a form of operant conditioning.
The cat in my house likes to go "exploring" a lot. My door is usually shut, although everytime I leave it open it seems as if the cat has a sensor that goes off which leads it to my open door into my room. I don't like this. At first I would simply pick up the cat and walk it outside my door and gently drop it. I believe since there was no real negative consequence to the cat entering my room, this lead to the other dozens of times in which the cat entered my room. I have recently changed my tactics though. Now instead of picking up the cat and getting clawed at in the process, I simply whip it with my key chain. After the first few good connections on my cat, I have noticed an immediate change in its behavior. Now instead of it running and hiding in my room, it simply gazes up at me in fear and sprints out of my room and hides. It gets even better though. As I am not a big fan of the cats, also I don't like when it is near me so now even outside my room when I see it it runs in fear of me. The fear of a little pain completely changes the way my cat is around me, which is benefitial to me in every way as no more cat in room, and no more cat getting in way.
Brendan McKeown
shaping the behavoir of my dog
Christa Walsh
Since it's only my parents and I at home, I decided to try to shape the behavior of my dog. We have a 3 1/2 year old shih tzu named Misty and she loves food, especially people food. Therefore, we have a real problem with her begging. We usually give in to her, so that is why she keeps begging, so I decided to try to make her stop begging by correcting her and disciplining her when she starts to beg.
I tried my experiment 2 times this weekend. Once at breakfast, which I eat at my kitchen table and once while I was eating a snack on the couch. At breakfast, when she starts to beg by whining or sneezing, I would make her sit, say NO and firmly give her a gentle hit on the top of her head. I stayed consistent and kept correcting her at the first sign of begging. Pretty soon, she was getting discouraged, so she just say there silent like she is supposed to. After she sat still with no begging for a few minutes I reinforced this behavior by giving her a little piece of food.
The next time I tried my experiment was much different because Misty tends to beg worse while she is on the couch because she can sit right next to us and see the food right in front of her. When she started to beg, I tried to same correction, but it wasn't working that well, so I decided I needed to separate her from the food. After placing her on the ground, I continued the correction and it worked much better. She even eventually became uninterested in the food a little.
There were two behaviors I reinforced in this experiment. Begging was punished by scolding and a head tap. Not begging was positively reinforced by rewarding her with a small piece of food.
The environment was very important because both time I was eating by myself. If my parents are eating at the same time as I am, Misty tends to beg a lot more because she gets frantic trying to beg from everyone at once. Probably if there had been other people in the room, she wouldn't have been as responsive to the consequences because she would've been distracted by other food. Other environmental factors were whether I was eating at the table or couch which I already said makes a difference, the fact that she was hungry, and the fact that everything else about the situation remained the same for except for the begging and consequences.
Since it's only my parents and I at home, I decided to try to shape the behavior of my dog. We have a 3 1/2 year old shih tzu named Misty and she loves food, especially people food. Therefore, we have a real problem with her begging. We usually give in to her, so that is why she keeps begging, so I decided to try to make her stop begging by correcting her and disciplining her when she starts to beg.
I tried my experiment 2 times this weekend. Once at breakfast, which I eat at my kitchen table and once while I was eating a snack on the couch. At breakfast, when she starts to beg by whining or sneezing, I would make her sit, say NO and firmly give her a gentle hit on the top of her head. I stayed consistent and kept correcting her at the first sign of begging. Pretty soon, she was getting discouraged, so she just say there silent like she is supposed to. After she sat still with no begging for a few minutes I reinforced this behavior by giving her a little piece of food.
The next time I tried my experiment was much different because Misty tends to beg worse while she is on the couch because she can sit right next to us and see the food right in front of her. When she started to beg, I tried to same correction, but it wasn't working that well, so I decided I needed to separate her from the food. After placing her on the ground, I continued the correction and it worked much better. She even eventually became uninterested in the food a little.
There were two behaviors I reinforced in this experiment. Begging was punished by scolding and a head tap. Not begging was positively reinforced by rewarding her with a small piece of food.
The environment was very important because both time I was eating by myself. If my parents are eating at the same time as I am, Misty tends to beg a lot more because she gets frantic trying to beg from everyone at once. Probably if there had been other people in the room, she wouldn't have been as responsive to the consequences because she would've been distracted by other food. Other environmental factors were whether I was eating at the table or couch which I already said makes a difference, the fact that she was hungry, and the fact that everything else about the situation remained the same for except for the begging and consequences.
shaping behavior- Kayla Eddy
Well, i wasn't quite sure what to do for this experiement, but after thinking about it i quickly came to an idea. I realized i had kind of been doing it for a few days now. In the morning, instead of taking the bus, my brother drives both of us to school. Lately he has been late getting up so we get to school right when the 5 minute bell rings. Usually in our brother-sister relationship it is usually whatever he says, goes (since he is older and i'm not one who deals with confrontation well). It didn't really bother me when we would get there 10- or even 5 minutes before the 5 minute bell rang, but now that we are later, it is a little annoying. I figured that yelling at him wouldn't make him go any faster, if anything it would make him want to go slower just to prove he didn't care. So i came up with the idea of waking him up every 2 or 3 minutes (instead of every 5 minutes). And then after he got up i would let him know how much time i was going to take until i was ready to leave. It kind of sounds bossy when i put it this way, but really it benefits both of us to get to school on time. A few times, when i did it right, he seemed to be quicker and we would get to school before all of the traffic. So i guess the behavior was my brother waking up late and the consequence was being almost late for school. But when i changed the environment from saying nothing to pretty much giving instruction, i shaped his behavior and that changed the consequence to getting to school from 5 to 10 minutes earlier than before.
operant conditioning the silent treatment
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<DIV>most people were very annoyed by having to repeat themselves but they knew if they were gonna get an answer then they would have to do it again. it was really hard to do for some people especially my teachers and girlfriend. No one asked me why i wasn't talking (2x) so i couldn't explain it to them iguess i'll tell them tommorow . i chose school because there are so many people to interact with here and there is more people to see how there responses compare and differ.</DIV>
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