/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3884282
Operant, Classical, our choice

>>3884298
you're a fucking dumbass, but Im not mad

I'm back awake, just bumping for thread survival. Will reply again like in 6 hours after my exam

Going to bed now, i hope this thread is up tomorrow. If not, i'll repost if you wanna keep posted about my experiment. Thank you for your contributions /sci/!

>>3883924
yeah, that'd be too simple though. I thought about simply teaching it to put a ball through a mini-basket hoop

>>3883922
non-anesthesize that is when they cut them open to see the cancer

>>3883917
fucking drug companies straight up non-anesthesize a rat to assess the size of their induced cancer for research on anti-cancer drugs.

>>3883908
you're obiously trolling but this was actually mentioned by another dumbass in class, it's a no-go

bump

>>3883889
yeah dude, i feel kinda bad to be honest but theer's not much i can do and my grade is important. The rats we're given are kept super happy, we get to hold them while in class and have the choice to take them home for the weekend. We make sure they are in healthy weight too. Im not trying to justify our deliberate depravation of water access at all but we're giving them a better ride than the rats at drug research labs or other shit

>>3883869
thanks anon, school provides me with a better source actually, i'm just here for an idea and then i can go look up some stuff along the lines of it. Perhaps i should wait and look up something on my own and THEN bring it here and ask for suggestions, lets see how this goes now though

>>3883868
it's not up to me to choose... my proffesor told us a story about some guy who took the class before that stole all the rats and set them free out in nature. They pretty much are lab-raised rats, and throwing them out in their natural habitat was a death sentence and got eaten by owls or died

now, at the end of the quarter we get to either give it to a shop so they can be bought or sold for feeder i guess or i get to take it home, i'm taking mine home.

>>3883858
this is what he looks like, just for the lulz

Hey /sci/!
I've got myself a Long Evans rat and a "Skinner Box" conditioning chamber this quarter. My final project is to condition my rat (Lorenzo) to do whatever. I've been assigned to look up A.P.A. behavioral research and come up with an experiment I'd like to do.

My guidelines are the following:
*I am not to use any negative reinforcement, so no shocking Lorenzo or anything

*Lorenzo is given 3 minutes of water per day (except Friday/Saturdays) so that he's thirsty thus allowing me to use the water as reinforcer of behavior

*I am to teach it to "bar press" in the skinner box to get water everytime he presses the lever

*Right now we're in the process of shaping the behavior of bar-pressing, he eventually is gonna learn to press the lever 10 times to get one single drink of water per cycle.

I welcome your ideas!! what should i do?!, I thought about taking advantage of their superior auditory system or something like that...

thank you for your time and interest!

also,
inb4 possible negative trolling

>>3846772
pharmaceuticals are in themselves a recipe for disaster.

>>3845591
nice fail

>>3845562
I ENJOY RIGHT NOW

>>3841575
I'm currently a Psychology major and want to work doing neuroscientific experiements at a cognition lab, i know that I have to get a masters at least but to what you're saying about "having to work your ass off", does that mean that once i'm on the graduate program i'll have to take all those bio and chem courses?!

Anon could you maybe broadcast this?

>>3822010
about psychiatrists, i dont believe in medicine. OP, do you meditate? i could send you some shit, if i had my iphone still i'd send it to you, shit got stolen last week

>>3821993
troll detected

>>3821987
dude can you make a a zip and share it later? or tomorrow?

>>3821979
agreed with this anon, been there with an idiot as well. think about my offer or his

>>3821949
OP, if i could fly you to California and pay for your one on one therapy would you be willing to take the flight?, i'd provide you with food and my house.