PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12-14: Nociceptor, Aversives, Athanasius Kircher
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Differential reinforcement schedules or procedures are schedules that reinforce specific rates of responding: they may be used to reinforce high or low response rates. Procedures presented in earlier chapters that can be used to increase and maintain operant behavior include positive reinforcement, shaping, fading, chaining, stimulus discrimination training, generalization, and the schedules of reinforcement. Procedures that can be used to decrease operant behavior include operant extinction, punishment, the antecedent control procedures described in part iii, and the differential reinforcement procedures described in this chapter. Differential reinforcement of low (drl) rates is a schedule of reinforcement in which a reinforcer is presented only if a particular response occurs at a low rate. Any target response that occurs after 15 minutes of the previous target response is immediately reinforced; any tar- get response that occurs within 15 minutes of the previous target response is not reinforced.
