PSY 02305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Reinforcement, Flashlight

• School: Rowan University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 02305
• Professor: Alexander Ward

Document Summary

Is a basic principle of behavior, supported by years of basic and applied research and is a component of many behavior modification procedures. Defining extinction: a previously reinforced behavior, is no longer followed by the reinforcing consequence, the behavior is weakened (decreases and stops occurring in the future. Turning the key in a broken trunk lock trunk does not open. Drinking from an empty soda bottle do not get any soda. Trying to use a flashlight with dead batteries get no light. 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. Behavior occurs in situations where it was reinforced in the past: procedural variations of extinction.