01:830:311 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Slot Machine, Reinforcement, Depressant
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Animals who respond quickly will have a small slope and have shorter break. Animals who are slow workers will have a bigger slope because they take. Cumulative record: picture of animal"s behavior pattern over a long period of time under certain schedule type: fr: longer to respond in between each response; they take longer breaks. Fr-100: after animal gets a piece of food after 100 bar presses, animal takes a 10 times longer break (prp) than the fr-10. Slopes of the lines are about the same- they work at the same pace in all schedules and work as fast as they can. The lengths of the pauses are in proportion to how hard they are working. Fr schedules cause a lot of stress, but fr-10 will not be nearly as stressed as fr- 1000; animals never want to work on these schedules because they have to work as fast as they can.
