FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Reinforcement, Behavior Modification, Matching Law

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

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Intermitent reinforcement: an arrangement in which a behavior is posiively reinforced only occasionally (intermitently), rather than evert ime it occurs. Response rate: refers to the number of instances of a behavior that had occurred in a given period of ime (synonymous with response frequency) Schedule of reinforcement: is a rule specifying which occurrences of a behavior, if any, will be reinforced. The simplest schedule of reinforcement in coninuous reinforcement (crf) which i an arrangement in which each instance of a paricular response is reinforced. The opposite of crf is operant exincion, which no instance on a given behavior is reinforced. Intermitent reinforcement is common in the natural environment, as not all behaviors are reinforced every ime. Acquisiion phase: when a behavior is being condiioned or learned. Maintenance phase: ater a behavior has become learned week. Fixed raio (fr) schedule: a reinforcer occurs each ime a ixed number of reponses of a paricular type are emited.