Resistance to extinction as a function of the discrimination habit established during fixed-ratio reinforcement.
- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology
- Vol. 54 (6) , 451-456
- https://doi.org/10.1037/h0040155
Abstract
Given a symptotic performance level under continuous reinforcement, resistance to extinction of a bar-pressing response was found to be a negatively accelerated increasing function of the additional number of blocks of fixed-ratio reinforcement. A discrimination habit of partial reinforcement (learning which bar press is followed by reward and which are not) was clearly revealed. The results support a discrimination analysis of the effects of partial reinforcement in extinction. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)Keywords
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