training+manual

Friday in class you will be creating a manual for how to train an animal how to complete a task. So now that you have created a manual for training an imaginary animal, lets turn the focus on a person in your real life. This is worth 40pts and due **printed out** the 18th (so you have 10ish days). Please select goals carefully "I want my little brother to be my slave" won't work, it is too vague and you would have to identify all the things you want him to do very clearly and reward each. "I want my neighbor to ask if I need a ride" or "I want my mom to make me lunch" could very well work because those are specific goals.

Note: no violence, capitol, or corporal punishment will be acceptable in this assignment. Harm no one... You will use all of the relevant to your situation terms from the animal training manual. They are listed below again for your reference. You should use all the terms relevant to your choice and of course explain why you did not chose the term you didn't.

Step 1: Who is your subject (cannot be in a psych class and obv. cannot be told that they are part of your homework). Step 2: What specific action do you want to achieve? (what is the unconditioned response?) Why did you select this? Step 3: What are your options for how to get there? (Classical and Operant conditioning each contain many parts, usually a few are used together, but no, you cannot blend classical and operant for this assignment, and if you want to, you are probably overthinking things or are totally confused.) Step 4: How will you put an option into place and how long will it take? (repetition is key!) ( ** this cannot be started the night before! ** ) Step 5: How will or did you know you have/had "trained" this individual? (how will you assess learning?) Step 6: What did (or would) you have to modify or change so that you trained them successfully? Did you encounter any issues? What surprised you or what could you have done to improve your training?

Please write up your experiment in detail, step by step. Step 1= 5pts (this does not have to be even a complete sentence, but explain why you chose the subject you chose.) Step 2= 5pts (be precise, the #1 way to mess up this project is to wait too long or be really vague in your goals.) Step 3= 10pts (this should be at the very least a paragraph. You have many options for how to get someone to do something, discuss what you could have tried and why you rejected that option and instead chose some other way of doing the task.) Step 4= 25pts (this can be bullet pointed, but you need to go through ALL the steps of your plan and implementation. Did you try something and it didn't work? Did you struggle with defining your goal? Explain) Step 5= 15pts (at least a para explaining how you know that they learned what they need to do...) Step 6= 10pts (did anything go wrong? did you have to do more repetition than you thought you would have to? How did you overcome the issues that you encountered)

unconditioned response (CC) conditioned response (CC) unconditioned stimulus (CC) conditioned stimulus (CC) stimulus generalization (CC) stimulus discrimination (CC) higher-order conditioning (both) primary reinforcers (OC) secondary reinforcers (OC) negative reinforcement (OC) positive reinforcement (OC) shaping (OC) reinforcement schedule (OC) continuous reinforcement (OC)
 * Terms that can be included in your write up: **