FRHD 3150 Study Guide - Final Guide: Attention Seeking, Reinforcement

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 3150
• Professor: Michelle Preyde

Document Summary

Respondent extinction is a decrease in a conditioned response due to a cs no longer being followed by a us, whereas, extinction is a decrease in an operant response due to it no longer being reinforced. You have just lose 25 $ is a response-cost punishment important during the application of extinction to ensure that the reinforcers that you are withholding are the ones that were actually maintaining the undesirable behavior. Operant extinction is most effective when combined with positive reinforcement for some desirable alternative behavior. People try more with a pen that sometimes works than never works [if it doesn"t work you throw it out] = makes extinguishing bad behaviour harder = resistant to extinction. Snapping her fingers in class, when ignored will initially snap more to get attention then it"ll die down when it doesn"t work. Girls keeps snapping, eventually bangs on the desk and yells hey . That"s why you should include positive r for good behaviour.