Sunday, March 20, 2011

Book Reading #7: Opening Skinner's Box

Title:
Chapter 1: Opening Skinner's Box

Summary:
This chapter is about B. F. Skinner, and his experiments.  Skinners first experiment included rats in a box with levers.  He studied their behavior, and how it changed by when they pushed a lever, they got food.  He also tried altering the schedule of food reward, and discovered that when using a fixed-ratio schedule, the rat quickly learned how many times to press the lever before getting food.

Discussion:
I thought that this was interesting.  I was in a management class, and we discussed different schedules for training individuals.  I noticed that all of the ones we covered in that class were ones that Skinner tested on his rats.

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