{"id":8642,"date":"2019-05-22T16:09:56","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/operant_train_task\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:09:56","slug":"operant_train_task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/operant_train_task\/","title":{"rendered":"Operant train task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An operant conditioning procedure in which infants aged between 6- and 18-months learn to press a lever in order to produce movement of a model train around a track. &nbsp;As with the mobile conjugate reinforcement task, but designed for older infants, infants are subjected to training sessions. &nbsp;To begin with, there is a non-reinforcement phase, which serves as the baseline. &nbsp;At the end of the second training session, a non-reinforcement phase constitutes a measure of acquisition. &nbsp;Infants are tested again after a delay of a few days or weeks during another non-reinforcement bout. &nbsp;The question then is whether infants remember how to make the train move. &nbsp;Findings dovetail with those reported for those obtained with the mobile conjugate reinforcement task: six month-old infants retain such knowledge for two weeks and 18 month-olds for up to three months. &nbsp;In a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3085631\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" target=\"_self\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3085631\/&amp;target=_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">study<\/a>, six month-old infants learnt the operant task and remembered how to do for two weeks thereafter, but moreover such experience mediated new learning of a modeling event remembered for one day and its recall. &nbsp;It was concluded that prior knowledge effects is not confined to adutls, but originates in early infancy. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"mobile_conjugate_reinforcement\">Mobile conjugate reinforcement<\/a>, <a href=\"operant_-or_instrumental-_conditioning\">Operant (or instrumental) conditioning<\/a>, <a href=\"recall\">Recall<\/a>, <a href=\"recall_memory\">Recall memory<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcement_schedule\">Reinforcement schedule<\/a>, <a href=\"reinforcer\">Reinforcer<\/a>, Sensory, &#8216;short-term&#8217; (STM) and long-term (LTM) memory<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An operant conditioning procedure in which infants aged between 6- and 18-months learn to press a lever in order to produce movement of a model train around a track. &nbsp;As with the mobile conjugate reinforcement task, but designed for older infants, infants are subjected to training sessions. &nbsp;To begin with, there is a non-reinforcement phase, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/operant_train_task\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Operant train task&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}