FRHD 3150 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Tennis, Matching Law, Richard Herrnstein

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

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Schedule of reinforcement: is a rule specifying which occurrences of a given behavior, if any, will be reinforced. The simplest schedule of reinforcement is continuous reinforcement, The opposite of continuous reinforcement is extinction. On an extinction schedule, no instance of a given behavior is reinforced. Between these two extremes lies intermittent reinforcement. Acquisition phase: while a behavior is being conditioned or learned. Maintenance phase: after it has become well learned. It is best to provide continuous reinforcement during acquisition and then switch to intermittent reinforcement during maintenance. Free-operant procedure: is one in which the individual is free to respond repeatedly in the sense that there are no constraints on successive responses. Discrete trials procedure: a distinct stimulus is presented prior to an opportunity for a response to occur and be followed by reinforcement, and the next response cannot occur until another stimulus is presented, and so on.