Shaping (Day 1)

Blizzards Shaping

 We did shaping for a total of 48 minutes, and we did shaping for a total of three days. Our process with shaping was exactly how our class discussion went. On the first day of training with Dr. Trench, we did a total of 18 minutes. Every time Blizzard went by the lever she was reinforced. Every time she was above the lever and came down we reinforced that because that is exactly what we wanted her to do. Sometimes she got distracted and went to the other side of the box but we tried to reinforce her at least every 30 seconds. But for anything close or in the direction of the lever we reinforced her. Shaping was very easy for Blizzard, she is very smart on the first day she pressed the lever 6 times.