PSYC 2440 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Sister My Sister, Hatchback, Piggy Bank

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2440
• Professor: Martin Garry

Document Summary

Chapter 5: no, parents removing a portion of a child"s weekly allowance immediately after a swearing instance would not be an example of distinction because a reinforcer occurred after the incident. Extinction is defined as a previously reinforced behaviour occurring on its own without reinforcement: continuous reinforcement is an arrangement in which each case of a particular response is reinforced. An example would be the game of jeopardy; you get money for each question you answer correctly: intermittent reinforcement is an arrangement in which a response is reinforced only occasionally rather than each time it occurs. An example would be a pen that sometimes works. Shake the pen, and it works for a bit. Shake it again, and it writes some more: the effect of continuous versus intermittent reinforcement on the resistance to the extinction of a behaviour is intermittent reinforcement will extinguish it slower than continuous reinforcement.