Megan and I have been intrested in several different things to base our experiment around, however, we have not been able to scale our ideas down. For our experiment we would use the box in the rat room that is 29 long x 21 wide x 19 deep. As for the living quarters we will utilize one of the two cages that our rats are kept in now. With this new idea Megan and I first need to propose this idea to Dr. Mac Ewen to be approved.

We designed a study to test whether or not a rat will work for exposure to another rat at the same degree to which the rat worked while receiving food reinforcement. We labeled this exposure as social reinforcement. Additional References and Prior Work.

Again, the numbers represent the percentage of correct trials for each of the sessions. The graph below represents the percentage of correct trials over the past 10 sessions with Masey.

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