Totally New:
CyberRat 2.0 has been redesigned as an
Internet/CD Hybrid! As an Internet/CD Hybrid,
CyberRat is a fully functioning oprant
conditioning laboratory that is as
convenient as your student's own
computer and internet connection!
Either hard drive or CD-ROM delivery
offers endless play of high quality
video.
Opening Splash Screen
What Is
CyberRat?
CyberRat is a fully interactive and
responsive digital video presentation
of a real laboratory animal. CyberRat
provides a database containing over
1,600 behavioral video clips, all
seamlessly played back in unique
sequences using stochastic algorithms.
Student record keeping and data
archives are maintained on our own
internet servers to give instructors
easy access to student progress
summaries-- anywhere, anytime!
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Why CyberRat is
Realistic Beyond All
Expectations!
Conducting Experiments in
CyberRat
Gross-motor activity habituates to
the novelty of an animal being placed
into the chamber during
pre-conditioning habituation sessions.
Pre-session water deprivation levels
have realistic effects on performance.
Water satiation occurs naturally within
sessions involving high-density use of
reinforcements. CyberRat allows the use
of "successive approximation" training
techniques for shaping many new
behaviors, including some--like bar
pressing--that will almost never occur
unless you shape them. Prior to
shaping, magazine train subjects to
respond to conditioned reinforcement
sounds associated with primary "water"
reinforcement delivery. Intermittent
schedules of reinforcement, whether
interval or ratio create standard
response rate patterns. Schedule
densities result in realistic rate
differences and you may even experience
"ratio strain" if you lean a schedule
too quickly!
CyberRat includes
complete video replay of any
session!
Full Video Replay of Experimental
Session
Designed with
Student Learning In Mind!
Graphic Results and Video
Review
There is a complete graphing
environment for reviewing or zooming in
on details of all cumulative records.
Cumulative graphs of data archives also
allow inserted video playback of any or
all segments of the data record. This
means all archived data may be viewed
in cumulative record and behavioral
forms simultaneously, whether supplied
by us, generated by you, or as a review
of a student's session!
Designed with Class
Management In Mind!
All experimental session records are
maintained on our internet servers for
each individual student in your course.
Our instructor's control browser allows
you to assign various experimental
tasks and to view student progress
summaries on all assignments with
easy-to-monitor access to student
session records. Sessions for all
students may be archived on our servers
as both response rate data and movie
scripts for easy playback to review and
diagnose problems or unique
results.
Control Experimental
Variables and Parameters!
CyberRat's Colony Room
Select and manage rats with
randomized sizes and learning
characteristics or even specific
experimental histories from the
CyberRat colony.
Parameter Management
Experimental variables may be
altered, including number of hours of
water deprivation, magnitude and
schedules of reinforcement. Instructors
may select-and-lock variable parameters
or may unlock and allow student
self-selections!
To arrange for
course adoption:
CyberRat now has
Learning and Conditioning Tutorials
available!
We have just released the perfect
companion for any Learning course and
textbook! Ray, Belden, and Eckerman's Learning and Conditioning Tutorials is a new chapter-length (40
topics) set of Artificially Intelligent
Adaptive Instruction-based Tutorials
were written to accompany CyberRat
specifically, but includes coverage on
Classical, Operant,Cognitive, and
Ecological Perspectives on Learning and
Conditioning, These tutorials emphasize
all the significant technical
terminology and concepts as well as
applications from each perspective.
On-line mastery certification
testing for each perspective is
included, along with free instructor
course-managment tools for setting
deadlines, monitoring student progress,
and lots of other important features
(inclding customized on-line testing
using any mixture of four question
formats--including Verplank's Verbal
Associates format!). The adaptive
certification testing engine allows for
multiple administrations of
Certification Tests with assurance of
minimal test duplications, thus
allowing instructors to offer
PSI-oriented mastery as a requirement
for this important new course
supplement.
In addition, a multi-topic
non-tutored/non-tested section on
strategies for selecting animals,
setting experimental parameters,
successfully magazine training, and
effeciently shaping rats in CyberRat is
included as an on-line "appendix" to
the tutorials, Free pdf file versions
of all the topical materials in Ray, Belden, and Eckerman's Learning and Conditioning Tutorials, including
the "how-to" appendix, are available at
our
PDF File Download page.
To get a fully operational on-line
adaptive tutorial evaluation
experience of Ray, Belden, and Eckerman's Learning and Conditioning Tutorials, go to our
Evaluation Copy page for a quick
and easy registration and
download.
To arrange for course adoption of
either CyberRat alone or CyberRat
with Learning Tutorials, contact us
at: info@psych-ai.com
For more information please e-mail:
info@psych-ai.com
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