PSYB45H3 Study Guide - Washing Machine, Karen People, Reinforcement

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Ed"s window was broken by a golf ball, so closing the window no longer results in escap e from the loud noise. Ed no longer closes his window: extinction mean s removing a reinforcer for a behavior so the behavior will stop occurring. Ignoring will function as extinction only when it was attention that was reinforcing the problem behavior: when a behavior is continuously reinforced, once the reinforcem e n t is terminat e d, the behavior will decreas e rapidly. It is the natural tend ency for the behavior to occur again in situations that are similar to situations in which the behavior occurred prior to extinction. Test que s tio n s: a behavior that has been previously reinforced no longer results in reinforcing consequences and, as a result, stops occurring in the future. This process is referred to as: positive reinforcement, extinction, negative reinforcement, punishment.