Partial reinforcement increases resistance to extinction of operant task in the house mice Mus musculus trained with a clicker

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dc.abstract.enLearning skills are very important in terms of animal chance of survival in nature. Results of training of kept animals and studies on their learning can enlarge our understanding of their skills. The clicker training is a popular form of training of many animal species, consisting of associating a neutral stimulus (a click) with a reward. In our paper we examined if the used reinforcement scheme has an influence on the extinction of learned behaviour. Forty female house mice Mus musculus were divided into 2 groups of 20 subjects towards which two separate rewarding schemes were used. For completing a learned activity, the mice from the A group received a reward after each click (continuous reinforcement), and the mice from the B group only after the second or the third click (partial reinforcement). Afterwards, at the extinction phase the mice were receiving none reinforcement. Our results showed that the mice which were given only partial reinforcement were more resistant to the extinction of learned behaviour, i. e. performed significantly more attempts to obtain a reward.
dc.affiliationWydział Medycyny Weterynaryjnej i Nauk o Zwierzętach
dc.affiliation.instituteKatedra Zoologii
dc.contributor.authorKiełtyka-Kurc, Agata
dc.contributor.authorSolarska, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorGórecki, Marcin
dc.date.access2025-06-17
dc.date.accessioned2025-09-22T12:19:25Z
dc.date.available2025-09-22T12:19:25Z
dc.date.copyright2023-07-30
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstract<jats:p>Learning skills are very important in terms of animal chance of survival in nature. Results of training of kept animals and studies on their learning can enlarge our understanding of their skills. The clicker training is a popular form of training of many animal species, consisting of associating a neutral stimulus (a click) with a reward. In our paper we examined if the used reinforcement scheme has an influence on the extinction of learned behaviour. Forty female house mice Mus musculus were divided into 2 groups of 20 subjects towards which two separate rewarding schemes were used. For completing a learned activity, the mice from the A group received a reward after each click (continuous reinforcement), and the mice from the B group only after the second or the third click (partial reinforcement). Afterwards, at the extinction phase the mice were receiving none reinforcement. Our results showed that the mice which were given only partial reinforcement were more resistant to the extinction of learned behaviour, i. e. performed significantly more attempts to obtain a reward.</jats:p>
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dc.description.volume9
dc.identifier.doi10.17161/eurojecol.v9i1.18771
dc.identifier.issn1339-8474
dc.identifier.urihttps://sciencerep.up.poznan.pl/handle/item/5033
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://journals.ku.edu/EuroJEcol/article/view/18771
dc.languageen
dc.relation.ispartofEuropean Journal of Ecology
dc.relation.pages86-89
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dc.subject.enlearning
dc.subject.enmouse
dc.subject.enMus musculus
dc.subject.enoperating conditioning
dc.subject.enrodent
dc.titlePartial reinforcement increases resistance to extinction of operant task in the house mice Mus musculus trained with a clicker
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