GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD
OPERANT CONDITIONING
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Question
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Continuous reinforcement is best for learning
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Of two activities, whichever is preferred the most can be used to reinforce the other activity
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Once behavior is learned, partial reinforcement schedules yield a higher success rate
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Extinction is highest in higher yield cases
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Detailed explanation-1: -Premack principle suggests that if a person wants to perform a given activity, the person will perform a less desirable activity to get at the more desirable activity; that is, activities may themselves be reinforcers.
Detailed explanation-2: -Premack’s principle (or the differential probability hypothesis) refers to reinforcing a target behavior by awarding some privilege to engage in a more desired behavior afterward. From: Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy, 2002.
Detailed explanation-3: -Parents use the Premack principle when they ask children to eat their dinner (low probability behavior) before eating dessert (high probability behavior). Over time, the child learns to eat dinner in order to gain access to the preferred behavior of eating dessert.