Day 6 - FR5

Time: 30:00
Protocol ID: 19 (FR5)
Event 1 Total: 148
Reinforcement Total: 29
Goal: Press the bar five times in a row without searching for reinforcement
Goal Reached: No

Having issues distinguishing between pressing the bar and hovering over/on the bar without pressing it. She will occasionally sniff under the bar and attempt to chew it, but will then go above the bar and press it.

She has clearly associated the click of the bar with reinforcement, but she hasn't necessarily understood that the press needs to happen multiple times for reinforcement to occur (i.e., she will check the hopper after nearly every press of the bar).

She is spending lots of time trying to crawl up/eat the hopper, and she is also trying to eat the bar (something she hasn't done before today).

Each down-press lasts 1-2 seconds (she holds the bar down), and at each up-press of the bar she perks up. This has let me to believe that she associates the higher pitched click (up-press) with reinforcement but not the lower pitched down-press.