First of all, Melanie and I spent this week editing our Methods Section to include our switch to an ABA design experiment. In addition, we completed the final phase of our ABA design, the A’ Phase. In this phase, we reintroduced the access to the water for the rats in the hour before running trials. We hypothesized that we would again see them perform more trials before the food lost its reinforcing value. We did see this take place. The other factor in our experiment has become whether the rats keep performing the behavior of jumping through the hoop without accepting the reinforcement of the food. This behavior occurred a lot less than during the water-deprivation Phase B of our experiment. Here are our final 5-days of data for our experiment.
Rat 1 (Diva) –>
Saturday 4/11
—– 64 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 29-minute time period
—– 3 more jumps in a 3-minute time period
—– Drank 30 mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Monday 4/13
—– 53 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 23-minute time period
—– 0 more jumps
—– Drank 25mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Tuesday 4/14
—– 60 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 30-minute time period
—– 1 more jump in a 1-minute time period
—– Drank 25mL in a 24-hour time period
Wednesday 4/15
—– 68 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 28-minute time period
—– 5 more jumps in a 1-minute time period
—– Drank 30mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Thursday 4/16
—– 58 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 29-minute time period
—– 2 more jumps in a 1-minute time period
—– Drank 30mL of water in a 24-hour time period
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Rat 2 (Beyonce) –>
Saturday 4/11
—– 58 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 26-minute time period
—– 12 more jumps in a 5-minute time period
—– Drank 30mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Monday 4/13
—– 54 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 24-minute time period
—– 0 more jumps
—– Drank 50mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Tuesday 4/14
—– 67 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 37-minute time period
—– 0 more jumps
—– Drank 30mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Wednesday 4/15
—– 56 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 25-minute time period
—– 3 more jumps in a 1-minute time period
—– Drank 60mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Thursday 4/16
—– 58 jumps before she denied food 3x in a 32-minute time period
—– 0 more jumps
—– Drank 40mL of water in a 24-hour time period
Steven's ABA Journey 