AbstractThe purpose of this article is to explore the examined effects of behavioral change in subjects as a function of a schedule. Participating rats were placed in an operant chamber for habituation, magazine training, and shaping sessions on a fixed-ratio schedule of reinforcement. These rats had no prior exposure to the operant conditioning chamber, nor any training. These rats were required to press a lever for reinforcement on a fixed-ratio schedule of four presses by the end of the experiment. The data showed that there was a significant difference in the means. The main effect of fixed-ratio reinforcement schedules in combination with means suggests that behavior actually changes as a function of schedule demands. The speed of lever presses increased as the ratio of fixed lever presses increased. Fixed Ratio Training Program: Training Laboratory Rats Animals can learn interesting and complex behaviors through conditioning and other training methods. The two types of conditioning are classical conditioning and operant conditioning. Conditioning incorporates both reinforcement and punishment. Reinforcement will increase the likelihood of a behavior, while punishment and extinction will decrease it. Lee and Belfiore state that “reinforcement is one of the most overused and misunderstood terms in behavior analysis” (1997). Along with these types of conditioning there are other factors that help train an organism. Habituation, magazine training, modeling, and various reinforcement schedules help achieve the desired behavior. All of these factors are part of training an organism to achieve desired behavior. Classical conditioning was made famous by… half of the article… 7). The role of pre-magazine training in self-trained key acquisition. Journal of Experimental Behavior Analysis, 28(2), 99-106.Hollis, K. (1997). Contemporary research on Pavlovian conditioning: a new functional analysis. American Psychologist, 52. 956-965. Lee, D. L., & Belfiore, P. J. (1997). Improving classroom performance: A review of reinforcement schedules. Journal of Behavioral Education, 7(2), 205-217. Pavlov, I. P. (1927). Conditional reflexes: an investigation of the physiological activity of the cerebral cortex. Oxford, England: Oxford Univ. Press. Retrieved from www.csa.comReynolds, G.S. (1961). Relativity of response rate and reinforcement frequency in multiple scheduling. Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 4, 179-184.Skinner, B. F. (1951). How to teach animals. American scientist, 185(6), 26-29.