As part of a psychology project, you decide totrain your pet hamster to run on a hamster wheel. In order toaccomplish this, you feed the hamster one food pellet every timethe hamster completes one full rotation on the hamster wheel. 

(a)Are you using classical or operant conditioning? 

(b) What type ofreinforcement schedule are you using? 

(c) After awhile, you want toreduce your reliance on hamster food but you still want to maximizethe number of wheel rotations that your hamster completes. Whattype of partial reinforcement schedule should you use? 

(d) You havea second hamster in the same cage. You haven’t been training it,but you notice that it starts spending more time running on thewheel too. What type of learning is the second hamster exhibiting?

(e) Eventually, your hamster starts to anticipate that fo od iscoming every time you enter the room. Is your hamster demonstratingclassical or operant conditioning? 

(f) Diagram the learning processdescribed in part (e) using the Before/ During/After diagrammingthat we practiced in class, and identify the NS, US, UR, CS, &CR

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a The conditioning used in the first situation is operant or instrumental conditioning as ... View the full answer