PSYB45H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Matching Law, Tennis
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Chapter 8 developing behavioural persistence with schedules of reinforcement. [chapter 6] intermittent reinforcement an arrangement in which a behaviour is positively reinforced only occasionally rather than every time it occurs. Response rate (synomous with response frequency) the number of instances of a behaviour that occur in a given period of time. Schedule of reinforcement a rule specifying which occurrences of a given behaviour will be reinforced: continuous reinforcement (crf) an arrangement in which each instance of a particular response is reinforced. Example: turning on the tap, your behaviour is reinforced by water. Opposite of operant extinction [chapter 6] an extinction schedule no instance of a given behaviour is reinforced (decreases: between the two extremes (crf and operant extinction) is intermittent reinforcement: Acquisition phase behaviour is being learned: best to provide crf during this phase. Maintenance phase after the behaviour is learned: switch to intermittent reinforcement. Reinforce remains effective longer because satiation takes place more slowly: 2.
