CMN 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Reinforcement, Shoplifting
12 May 2011
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Once the behaviour is no longer reinforced, it often increases briefly in frequency, duration, or intensity, before it decreases and stops. Example when julia screams and cries louder for attention, her parents may come into the room and give her the attention she was not getting for crying. Spontaneous recovery: the behaviour may occur again even after it has not occurred for some time: natural tendency for the behaviour to occur again in situations that are similar to those in which it occurred before extinction. If there is not reinforcement when spontaneous recovery occurs, the behaviour will not continue for long www. notesolution. com: example greg may still try occasionally to open the back door to his building. If the door happens to open one day, his behaviour of using that door will be reinforced, and he will more likely to try to use that door again.
