PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Flashlight, Reinforcement
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Is supported by years of basic and applied research. Extinction occurs when: a previously reinforced behavior, is no longer followed by the reinforcing consequence, the behavior is weakened (decreases and stops occurring in the future) Present: the behavior is no longer reinforced. Turning the key in a broken trunk lock trunk does not open. Drinking from an empty soda bottle do not get any soda. Telling unfunny jokes get no laughs. Trying to use a flashlight with dead batteries get no light. Calling someone who never answers her phone do not get any response. Parent stops reacting to child misbehavior child gets no attention. When the reinforcer no longer follows a particular behavior, three things may happen initially: increase in frequency, duration, or intensity of the unreinforced behavior, occurrence of novel behaviors, occurrence of emotional and/or aggressive behaviors. The behavior occurs again sometime later after it was eliminated with extinction.
