When a behavior is highly resistant to extinction, the organism takes longer to stop responding after a reinforcement is no longer given. When punishment is applied after every instance of an unwanted target behavior, it is generally more effective. You just studied 10 terms!
When punishment is applied after every instance of an unwanted target behavior it is generally more effective True or false?
Punishment is
more effective
when applied at least an hour after the target behavior has occurred.
What is a difference between positive punishment and negative reinforcement?
Positive reinforcement increases the target behavior by adding something preferred (good). Positive punishment
decreases the target behavior by adding something aversive (bad)
. Negative reinforcement increases the target behavior by taking away something aversive.
What is the most powerful reinforcement technique in conditioning?
According to research, the most powerful reinforcement technique in conditioning is
positive reinforcement
.
What happens if reinforcement stops?
Extinction
, in operant conditioning, refers to when a reinforced behavior is extinguished entirely. This occurs at some point after reinforcement stops; the speed at which this happens depends on the reinforcement schedule, which is discussed in more detail in another section.
Does punishment change behavior?
Remember that reinforcement, even when it is negative, always increases a behavior. In contrast,
punishment always decreases a behavior
. In positive punishment, you add an undesirable stimulus to decrease a behavior. … In negative punishment, you remove a pleasant stimulus to decrease a behavior.
What are the 4 types of reinforcement?
- Primary Reinforcement.
- Secondary Reinforcement.
- Positive Reinforcement.
- Negative Reinforcement.
What kinds of reinforcement and punishments seem to be most successful?
Natural reinforcers
are often the most effective, but social reinforcers can also be extremely powerful. Tokens are often more useful with children, while tangible reinforcers are essential for training dogs, for example.
What is negative punishment examples?
Losing access to a toy, being grounded, and losing reward tokens
are all examples of negative punishment. In each case, something good is being taken away as a result of the individual’s undesirable behavior.
What are examples of positive punishment?
With positive punishment, you add something unpleasant in response to a behavior. For example, a
child chews gum in class
, which is against the rules. The punishment is the teacher disciplining them in front of the class. The child stops chewing gum in glass.
Which reinforcement schedule is most effective?
Continuous reinforcement schedules
are most effective when trying to teach a new behavior. It denotes a pattern to which every narrowly-defined response is followed by a narrowly-defined consequence.
Which of these reinforcement schedules is most resistant to extinction?
Among the reinforcement schedules,
variable ratio
is the most productive and the most resistant to extinction. Fixed interval is the least productive and the easiest to extinguish (Figure 1).
When a behavior is highly resistant to extinction what takes longer?
When a behavior is highly resistant to extinction, the organism takes
longer to stop responding after a reinforcement is no longer given
. When punishment is applied after every instance of an unwanted target behavior, it is generally more effective. You just studied 10 terms!
What is a disadvantage of continuous reinforcement?
The advantage to continuous reinforcement. is that the desired behavior is typically learned quickly. The disadvantage to continuous reinforcement. is
difficult to maintain over a long period of time due to the effort of having to reinforce a behavior each time it is performed
.
What causes a conditioned response to become extinct?
How is a conditioned response learned? A conditioned response is learned by pairing a neutral stimulus with an unconditioned stimulus. …
When the conditioned response no longer appears with the conditioned stimulus
, then the conditioned response will become extinct.
What phenomenon has occurred when a classically conditioned response no longer occurs?
In operant conditioning,
extinction
occurs when a response is no longer reinforced following a discriminative stimulus. B. F. Skinner described how he first observed this phenomenon: “My first extinction curve showed up by accident.
