Day 15 - FR20

Time: 30:00
Protocol ID: 26 (FR20)
Event 1 Total: 283
Reinforcement Total: 14 +8 bonus reinforcements
Goal: Press bar 350+ times without jackpot reinforcement
Goal Reached: No

For the first 3 minutes only 2 bar presses were recorded. Unusual behavior so far considering her behavior and improvement last time.

Last time by the 6 min mark she had passed the 100 bar-press mark. By 8:30 she has only pressed the bar 30 times. I'm completely unsure of her behavior, and it's frankly beginning to concern me.

9:30 - nearly all of her time has been spend exploring the magazine and almost no time around the bar at all much less pressing it. It seems as if she has already been extincted.

11:00 - 37 bar presses. Intense grooming and exploring the magazine (but not putting much effort/time into it); it's as if she has no energy or will.

12:45 - 7 bar presses in a row. She's getting back on track, but this is still extremely slow progress.

17:25 - Crossed the 100 bar-press mark. Finally.

I have company in the lab today, and I can only assume that this is the reason for her poor performance.

Due to her poor performance, I've been forced to jackpot her in order to attempt to increase her Event 1 total.

21:15 - 11 par presses in a row. By 21:30 she had completed the 20 necessary for the program. This is more like Rat.

24:30 - Crossed the 200 bar-press mark. Slowly getting back on track.

26:30 - I think I may have pushed her too hard, too fast. Although she is beginning to perform like her usual self, Rat is still going much slower than I would like.