Exam 6: Schedules of Reinforcement

In schedules research, VD stands for .

Studies of choice involve .

Although important, the matching law is restricted to a narrow range of species, responses, reinforcers, and reinforcement schedules.

George's Pigeons George trains a pigeon to peck a disk by reinforcing each disk peck.Once the response is learned, George begins to cut back on the reinforcers.At first he reinforces every other response, then every third Response, every fifth response, every tenth response, and so on. Refer to George's Pigeons.George is using a procedure called .

One explanation for the PRE implies that the effect is really an illusion.This is the .

When a response is placed on extinction, there is often an increase in emotional behavior.

FT and VT are both kinds of reinforcement.

The study of reinforcement schedules suggests that the behavior we call stick-to-itiveness is largely the product of .

The schedule to use if you want to produce the most rapid learning of new behavior is .

A schedule that does not require the performance of a particular behavior is the .