BIOLOGICAL BASES OF BEHAVIOR
BIOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Question
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continuous reinforcement
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partial (intermittent) reinforcement
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Learned behaviors are acquired more slowly with partial reinforcement, but the response is more resistant to extinction.
Detailed explanation-2: -Among the reinforcement schedules, variable ratio is the most productive and the most resistant to extinction.
Detailed explanation-3: -Intermittent reinforcement makes extinction slower or harder to accomplish. The reason is that intermittent reinforcement makes an extinction period harder for animals to discriminate. During an extinction period, a behavior is never reinforced.
Detailed explanation-4: -Among the different types of reinforcement schedules, the variable-ratio schedule (VR) is the most resistant to extinction whereas the continuous schedule is the least7.
Detailed explanation-5: -However, intermittent reinforcement of the kind used in schedules of reinforcement does have one important quality-it produces robust responding that is significantly more resistant to extinction than when continuous reinforcement is used (cf. Ferster & Skinner, 1957).