SNIFFY The Virtual Rat-Version 4.5-Version 4.5 MacIntosh Disk Enclosed on Amazon.com.FREE. shipping on qualifying offers. SNIFFY The Virtual Rat-Version 4.5-Version 4.5 MacIntosh Disk Enclosed.
Its a good idea to keep all your Sniffy data files Sniffy the Virtual Rat Pro in a folder on your computers hard disk. The movement ratio is a measure of Sniffys actual behavior. If a CS has an inhibitory, negative tendency to prevent the occurrence of a CR, its response strength will be less than 0.
Sniffy the Virtual Rat, is a fun, interactive software program that gives undergraduate students a Virtual laboratory experience without all the drawbacks of using a real laboratory Rat. Using Sniffy, students can explore operant and classical by performing experiments that demonstrate most of the major conditioning phenomena discussed in.
Like a real rat in a typical operant chamber, Sniffy can have a drink of water whenever he wants one. In the center of the back wall is the bar (or lever) that you will train Sniffy to press. Below the bar is the hopper into which Sniffy’s food pellets will drop. At the bottom of the screen is the cumulative recorder of Sniffy’s bar presses.

Sniffy The Virtual Rat Cd Rom
Sniffy The Virtual Rat Download
Sniffy The Virtual Rat Macro

Sniffy The Virtual Rat Cd Rom

Sniffy the Virtual Rat is a fun, interactive software program that gives undergraduate students a virtual laboratory experience. Using Sniffy, students can explore by performing experiments that demonstrate most of the major conditioning phenomena discussed in textbooks on the psychology of learning.

A couple of weeks ago, I had to learn how to train a virtual rat before I could begin making progress on/start training my live rat, Delilah. I magazine trained, shaped, and did a few reinforcement schedules on the virtual rat.

Magazine training involves teaching an animal to associate a neutral stimulus with a secondary stimulus. A secondary stimulus becomes a stimulus through the process of being paired with a primary stimulus. The neutral stimulus was the food magazine. The secondary stimulus was the sound that was made when the food magazine would deliver food.

The Sniffy software graphed Sniffy’s progress and produced cumulative records. Magazine training did not take very long, maybe 10-15 minutes. I had to press the lever to have food delivered and quite enjoyed watching Sniffy run across the operant chamber towards the hopper when he/she heard the noise.

Shaping took substantially longer to do than magazine training. I spent about 30 minutes to an hour trying to shape the virtual rat. Shaping is where the rat is actually taught to press the lever for food. Sniffy learned fairly quickly, for a computerized rat, that if he/she pressed the bar he/she would get food. Change aspect ratio quicktime.

Sniffy The Virtual Rat Download

I do feel more prepared now after seeing an example of how magazine training and shaping are really done. It was good to experience this virtual world first before applying it to a real rat training situation. The training of the computerized rat was probably easier than trying to train a real rat. Pes 2010 free full version pc crack. The computerized rat was very concentrated at the task at hand and I do not think most rats are like that.

Sniffy The Virtual Rat Macro

I put Sniffy on a VR (variable ratio) 5 schedule. This means that Sniffy was rewarded after every five bar presses. I then went to VR 10 and then VR 20. Then, I played around with other reinforcement schedules. I put Sniffy on a FR (fixed ratio) schedule where she was rewarded every 50 times. I was just thankful there was a way to speed up Sniffy’s progress. That is something you cannot do with a real rat. I did notice that Sniffy was faster at learning the various reinforcement schedules compared to shaping. It was amusing to watch how Sniffy would learn the schedule. Sniffy would press the bar a couple of times and then give up/get frustrated and then would learn after a few tries how many times to push the bar before a reward of food would come.