PSYC 2660 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Slot Machine
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Includes the procedure of withholding a reinforcer following a previously reinforced response and the result that the response decreases with frequency with the reinforcer for that response has stopped. Efects are not likely to be noiced immediately. The behaviour that no longer has any beneit will fade. Not everything should be rewarded: ex) becky shouldn"t always think she"s going to heaven for not sleeping with a man on the 1stnight. Coninuous schedule: every occurrence of a speciied response is reinforced. Intermitent schedule: responses are reinforced only casually, studies found that: Individuals are likely to work much more consistently on certain intermitent schedules of reinforcement rather than coninuous reinforcement. A behaviour that has been reinforced intermitently is likely to take much longer to exinguish than a behaviours that is reinforced using a coninuous schedule: types of intermitent reinforcement lomoarcpsd| 987298. Reinforcement that occurs only ater a ixed number of responses are emited.