PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Natural Environment, Answering Machine, Soldering Iron
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Chapter 8: developing behavioral persistence with schedules of reinforcement. Intermittent reinforcement: is an arrangement in which a behavior reinforced only occasionally (i. e. , intermittently) rather than every time it occurs: ja(cid:374)(cid:859)s pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)-solving behavior was not reinforced after each math problem that she solved. Instead, she received reinforcement after a fixed number of problem-solving responses had occurred. On this reinforcement jan worked at a very steady rate: response rate: the number of instances of a behavior that occur in a given period of time, synomous with the term response frequency. Response rate is more commonly used when talking about schedules of reinforcement: schedule of reinforcement: is a rule specify which occurrences of a given behavior, if any, will be reinforced. You have to work for a week before you get your weekly paycheck. Experiments on the effects of various strategies for positively reinforcing behaviors have been studied under the topic of schedules of reinforcement.
