SOCSCI 2UA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Matching Law, Reinforcement, Scallop
19 Nov 2018
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Consistency of performance: post-reinforcement-pause, common after large response requirement, also dependent of magnitude of reinforcement. Continued responding during extinction: sustained responding during extinction conditions, especially if learning history had high response requirement. Advantages of ratio schedules: supports maintained responding, high response rate, easy to use, facilitate artificial reinforcement to more natural reinforcement. Using ratio schedules effectively: select schedule to sustain desired rates, individualizing schedules, data-based decision making, matching law: organisms distribute their behavior between two or more concurrent schedules of reinforcement. If a child is reinforced 60% of the time in one schedule and 40% of the time in another, they will respond about 60% of the time in the first and. 40% in the second: reducing rate: reinforcement depends on lower rates of responding (drl) Thin gradually: select your schedule, select your progression criteria, select your regression criteria, track responding. Consider ongoing reinforcement before extinction: what schedule was successful to increase responding, use this when implementing extinction.
