Rat Lab Experiment

Fosse's little Skinner box is rocking with jazz and classical music. And Fosse can tell the difference: He pulls a chain every time he hears jazz and presses a lever every time he hears classical music! And he gets a little water as a reward. Joanna Dickens trained Fosse to be a discriminating listener as her original experiment in her undergrad psych course at Western Michigan University. Kristen Gaisford was her TA.
(For more info go to http://www.dickmalott.com/students/undergradprogram/psy3600/)

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• rat
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[jedipsychologist]

i heard dr. malott pulled the rat from the program and took him to a conference to present.

she trained him with the same two songs, but when they tried other classical and jazz songs, he discriminated perfectly.

[kmrelph]

No, Dr. Malott did not pull the rat from the program to present at a conference. I believe she started generalization and that the rat did generalize to other jazz and classical songs other than the ones he was trained on, but the semester came to an end and she could not finish this part of the experiment. This would be a great experiment to do though!

[madnessinthedirt]

@Maddieyeah14 I wasn't being rude, I was just stating a fact. derp.

[st3v33100]

And that's what i call the highly intelligent rat. Is he Wistar or Sprague-Dawley?

[ljbstudio]

I don't see or hear it. The music seems to be the same. There is no variation.

[ljbstudio]

@Maddieyeah14 People too?

[OneTimeUse63]

@melodie973 Yup, it's behavioral psychology, which is a college course and accepted worldwide?

[Maddieyeah14]

@madnessinthedirt no need for rude attitude. rats and other animals dont deserve this....

[Maddieyeah14]

@melodie973 i  totally agree

[madnessinthedirt]

@melodie973 Who cares, they're rats? people kill them every day.... at least this ones alive....

[madnessinthedirt]

@Maddieyeah14 actually they're rodents. derp.

[Maddieyeah14]

Ass. How dare you. Rats are people too!