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Box 3.2 Variable Schedule Reinforcement in the Shelter Training Dogs to Sit Using Variable Ratio Reinforcement
ОглавлениеAn animal trainer is training dogs in the shelter to sit when someone walks by their kennel. The trainer decides to deliver food on a variable ratio 5 (written as VR 5). This means that on average, every fifth response will receive a food reward when someone walks by. The dog might receive a piece of food on the first response (sitting when the first person walks by), sixth response, second response, eighth response, fifth response, eighth response, and so on. If that same dog was trained the same behavior with a fixed ratio 5 (FR 5), then it would receive a piece of hotdog after every fifth response since the number of required responses is fixed at five.
