Cal State Long Beach Reinforcement Schedules on Bar Pressing Behavior Report

Your report should include a title page, a method section, a results
section, a discussion section, and a bibliography. Please follow APA
paper guidelines for your report. When writing your method sections, I
would like you to “pretend” that you are using live animals in all of
your experiments. In some of your projects (including your first one),
you will start by opening the “ShapeBP” file, which is a saved session
for a rat that has been shaped to bar press. In your method sections,
therefore, you can start by saying something like, “All rats were first
trained to bar press for food reward.” In addition, when writing your
method sections, be sure to include all the procedural required for
another researcher to replicate your experiment. Your report must also
include a detailed description of the data, including all descriptive
and inferential statistics performed. For this project, you must
provide a two separate bar graph (including error bars!) for
experiment one and two that illustrates the average response rates for
each experimental group of animals.