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!!! New: Tutorials Now Available for Adoption with CyberRat!!!

To arrange for course adoption of either CyberRat alone or CyberRat with Learning Tutorials, contact us at:

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The Fully Updated

 

Version 2.0

has been redesigned as an

Internet/CD Hybrid

Now as an Internet/CD Hybrid, this fully functioning oprant conditioning laboratory 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: Click to see Full-size Version


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!


 

Login Screen: Click to see Full-size Version


 

Why CyberRat?

Realistic Beyond Expectations!


Conducting Experiments in CyberRat: Click to see Full-size Version

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: Click to see Full-size Version


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 Animal 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!



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