Another trick we started working on is getting the mail. He can't get it out of our real mailbox as it's one of those centralized units, and I don't think he can operate the key. (That's a joke.) But. . . he can do a Little Tikes mailbox.
Today we just worked on opening the door. You see a nice extinction burst and recovery, then finally extinction. He wants that butterfly. Even after he gives up and works on the door, he goes back to the butterfly and tries again. So we extinguished the butterfly, it came back, and then extinguished again. Just remember, if you're trying to use extinction on a behavior, if you ever, ever, ever reward it, you just made it stronger because you've got it on a variable reinforcement schedule.
Tomorrow we'll work on getting something out of the mailbox. Then we'll put the two behaviors together. Here's a video of tonight's work.
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