Partial Reinforcement Effect after a Small Number of Training Trials

1 December 1966

journal article
research article
Published by SAGE Publications in Psychological Reports

Vol. 19 (3_suppl) , 1335-1336
https://doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1966.19.3f.1335

Abstract

Two experiments on the partial reinforcement effect (PRE) are reported in which Ss were given three training trials. In each experiment four groups of Ss received different patterns of reinforcement but in neither experiment did differences between the groups indicate the existence of a PRE.

Keywords

PRE
SMALL NUMBER
REINFORCEMENT EFFECT
TWO EXPERIMENTS
NUMBER OF TRAINING
PARTIAL REINFORCEMENT
EXPERIMENT FOUR

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Extinction after a Small Number of Partial Reinforcement Trials
Psychological Reports, 1963