scholarly journals Effect of partial reinforcement trial sequences on extinction performance

1968 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 375-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Spivey ◽  
David T. Hess
Keyword(s):  
Partial Reinforcement ◽  
Extinction Performance ◽  
Reinforcement Trial

Extinction Performance as a Function of N-R Transitions and Intertrial Reinforcement with Extended Partial Reinforcement Training

1968 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 765-771 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Spivey ◽  
David T. Hess ◽  
James Klemic
Keyword(s):  
Partial Reinforcement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Albino Rats ◽  
Extinction Performance ◽  
Extended Training ◽  
Consistent Reinforcement ◽  
Intertrial Reinforcement ◽  
Partial Reinforcement Training

3 groups of albino rats were given 96 acquisition trials in a runway. One group (C) was given consistent reinforcement, while the other 2 groups (PN, PR) received the same partial reinforcement pattern, RRNNRRNN, on each day. Following Trial 4 for Group PN and Trial 5 for Groups PR and C., Ss were given intertrial reinforcement. In extinction the groups were ordered PR, PN, C, with Group PR being most resistant to extinction. Taken in conjunction with the results of studies involving abbreviated training, the findings were interpreted as supporting the view that the same variables or processes influence extinction performance following both abbreviated and extended training. The results were further interpreted as supporting the modified aftereffects hypothesis.

Pattern of Reinforcement and Intertrial Interval Effects on Acquisition and Extinction Performance in Humans

1974 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
G. C. Jernstedt
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Intertrial Interval ◽  
Instrumental Conditioning ◽  
Partial Reinforcement ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Total Variance ◽  
Extinction Performance ◽  
Discrete Trial ◽  
Conditioning Situation ◽  
Observing Responses

College students made observing responses in a discrete-trial instrumental-conditioning situation. Intertrial intervals from 1 to 10 sec. were factorially combined with patterns of reinforcement involving different total numbers of non-reinforcements, numbers of successively occurring non-reinforcements, and numbers of non-reinforced—reinforced trial transitions. In agreement with previous studies with rats, Exp. 1 indicated that intertrial interval interacts with pattern of reinforcement and accounts for a large percentage of the total variance. Contrary to previous studies with rats, Exp. 2 indicated that the effects of intertrial interval with humans are due to more than just those intertrial intervals near a non-reinforced—reinforced trial transition. Though much of the basic human and animal partial-reinforcement data are similar, the theoretical accounts apparently should differ.

Infant Contingency/Extinction Performance After Observing Partial Reinforcement

Infancy ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Weir ◽  
Cynthia Toland ◽  
Rose Ann King ◽  
Lisa Maas Martin
Keyword(s):  
Partial Reinforcement ◽  
Extinction Performance

The Effects of Partial Reinforcement on the Ambiguous Cue Effect

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah A. Michalek ◽  
Marco Vasconcelos ◽  
Peter J. Urcuioli
Keyword(s):  
Partial Reinforcement ◽  
Ambiguous Cue
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